Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard library officials said they have been working on a system similar to the one at MIT, but the earliest the network will be completed is 1989. Aaron said it took MIT slightly more than four years to complete its system, which Harvard officials said is geared toward a library collection much smaller than Harvard...
...Earliest man lived in these landscapes, among such animals, among these splendid trees that have personalities as distinct as those of the animals: the aristocratic flat-topped acacia, the gnarled and magisterial baobab. Possibly scenes from that infancy are lodged in some layer of human memory, in the brilliant but preconscious morning...
Myers, 29, is a Cambridge youth coordinator who expects a CCA endorsement in March. He has already begun one of the earliest campaigns in recent years. The $10,000 campaign chest he claims is also more than respectable by the standards of a race in a city which is small enough to give personal loyalties more weight than purchased mediaexposure...
Cambodian Witness begins, happily enough, with an easeful and exotic tour of prerevolutionary life in the capital of Phnom Penh, where May's father was a doctor. The narrator's earliest memory is of fighting with his siblings for the free toy inside his mother's packages of Tide, and the household he describes with clear-eyed affection is governed by all the rites of any middle-class family anywhere -- watching TV on weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with...
...they fared. Except for Irish political dissidents, for whom Australia was the "official Siberia," the typical transportee was apt to be a small-time thief with at least one previous conviction. Those sent over for more genteel crimes inevitably felt superior to the cruder types, and the colony's earliest bureaucracy had the distinction of being "almost wholly made up of forgers...