Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University Museum--home of geology, anthropology, glass flowers, etc. Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory. New Lecture Hall-home of History 1 and other large lecture courses. The New Lecture Hall was built in 1905, but, left unnamed, it has ever since retained its earliest appellation...
...Unscheduled, but no surprise, was the resignation last week of Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. as Assistant Secretary of State. In his memorandum to the Monopoly Investigation Committee last fortnight, Mr. Berle had made plain what was no secret: that, as one of the earliest Brain Trusters, he does not see eye to eye with some of the President's present economic advisers. The parting, however, was highly amicable. Mr. Berle cited his understanding with the President that when "certain work was got forward" he might go home. Last week's report was that this "certain work...
...years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
...course there will be the usual gaps and question-marks to be filled when Coach Dick calls out the gridmen Friday, Septembed 9, for the earliest starting date in Harvard's football history, made possible by the new Big Three agreement, although criticized by Yale...
Ferdinand's earliest memories are only slightly less poisonous than his later ones. Son of an insurance clerk (''a drivelling great ape, with his head full only of fury, pretences and louder and louder yellings: a whole clattering chaos of idiocies"), and a well-meaning but uncherished mother who runs a dilapidated antique shop, Ferdinand recalls malicious neighborhood gossip, scandals, a murder, a tough playmate who taught him much smut, another playmate who went to the country and died of fresh air. But these are among his lighter reminiscences. Most haunting memory is of his father accusing...