Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Waltham and has lived there ever since, holding several municipal offices and founding the Waltham Hospital in 1886. He was one of the earliest to operate in cases of appendicitis and was a pioneer in systematic training for nurses...
...Washington University (St. Louis), backed by Rockefeller funds, has been working on the site with three Greek savants. The great hall of mysteries with its gateways and fortifications was uncovered before he appeared. It was believed that a sanctuary built in the 7th Century B. C. was the earliest theatre of the rites, that they were introduced to Greece shortly before that, some scholars thought from Egypt...
...After the hearing, the Court held an extra long private session-five hours- debating, presumably, gold clauses. Obviously the court would like to 1) decide the issue quickly because of its importance; 2) render a decision by a decisive vote, not by a 5-4 majority. Earliest likely date for a decision based on past precedent: Feb. 4. Latest probable date: three months hence...
Texas. One hundred million years old were the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world...
...like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures had an animation of posture and facial expression which moved Dr. Lansing to pronounce them unique in Egyptian art. Furthermore he thought they were probably the earliest known representations of Central African pygmies...