Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thos. Cook & Son, travel agents, reported an astonishing influx of queries and booking orders by U. S. business agents anxious to follow behind the Hoover party by the earliest possible ships, to explore new markets and capitalize Hoover Goodwill...
Iraq, one of the earliest centers of civilization, is now attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...
...Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight...
There is an excellent original drawing by R. C. Lucas of the "Meeting of Thornhill and Olivia" to illustrate "The Vicar of Wakefield," and also a Bollandson drawing for the Vicar of Wakefield. The earliest French translation of "The Deserted Village" and the earliest Dutch translation of "The Vicar of Wakefield" are also of interest...
Harvard is famous for the fact that her student body is the most indifferent and her alumni the most cohesive and enthusiastic band of persons to be met with in collegiate circles. This change takes place, at the earliest, after three years of absence from the Yard and it is ladle to try and speed up a development which has all the symptoms of a natural process. Those devoted to collecting the back debts of the University would do well to admit the paradox and refrain from killing by forced cultivation a plant that will shortly grow to luxuriant productivity...