Word: earliest
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...Hampshire became the state with the nation's earliest presidential preference primary [April 28] in 1952. For more than two decades, the state and its primary have proved to be a reliable testing ground for presidential candidates...
...introduction. First he dismisses those with no interest in genealogy as "the real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest recorded ancestor is the existence of a document showing that Lambert Massynberd was had up for [doing] grievous bodily harm in 1288."Note the strategy? First the more-felonious-ancestry-than-thou ploy, then hit them with the 700-year-old family...
Just when Freeman's appointment will take effect will be decided by an hoc Faculty committee. According to sources in the Ec Department, Dean Rosovsky has told the department that any new tenured appointments probably will not take effect until 1976 at the earliest or, more likely...
Noel could not be reached yesterday for comment on the commission's recommendation. However, a spokesman for his office said Noel was not expected to announce a decision until Monday "at the earliest...
...safe, successful vaccine against them. But identification of cancer viruses is likely to produce a payoff long before vaccines become practical. Spiegelman believes that the presence of viral particles, which are unique to each type of cancer, may provide doctors with effective methods of detecting cancer in its earliest stages-well before it can be diagnosed by X rays and more conventional methods. That development by itself could save many of the Americans who die of cancer every year...