Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time, Bates is offering a semester course in American Literature. In this course, which I am conducting, are 110 students. We began with John Smith as the earliest writer of note and are proceeding in our consideration, chronologically, to the modern writers...
...Princeton University, Geologist B. F. Howell announced that a tiny fossil fishplate (scale) which he had picked the previous summer out of Cambrian strata in Franklin County, Vt., had been identified as belonging to a primitive fish, the earliest known creature to possess a notochord (rudimentary spine), which swam in the days of trilobites and brachiopods as the then (over 50 million years ago) highest form of animal life. Fellow scientists named the scale in honor of its discoverer "Howell's dawn fish," marking the dawn of vertebrate life...
...Although much of the ground is still boggy a large enough expanse has dried up on one of the middle diamonds to make regular practice possible. The rest of the baseball squad, that is, pitchers and infielders, will not get out before the end of the week, at the earliest...
...lacrosse team is not expected to be on the field for regular out-door practice until about April 5, at the earliest which is only ten days before the first game...
Mystery. Curiously enough, the Zaharoff legend remains most vigorous among the Spanish nobility, where it took its earliest roots. In a recent volume (see BOOKS) H. R. H. the Infanta Eulalia of Spain speaks of "Sir Basil Zaharoff and other prominent figures associated with the occult force which now directs Europe...