Word: first
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benet is one of the most promising of the younger school of writers, and his best known work, "John Brown's Body", had an unusually large first edition, totalling 65,000 volumes...
...except Potter, who is out of the game with a foot injury, reported in fine condition yesterday. Trainer was given a day off and was in the cage in civilian clothes watching Richards take his place at guard. Except for this temporary change the first team lined up exactly as it has since the Michigan game...
...clock yesterday afternoon, the Harvard seismograph reported the tremors of an earthquake of moderate intensity within 200 miles or so of the vicinity of Boston. The actual force of the quake was spent in the first three minutes after it started, but the vibrations continued until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It was reported that a house in Malden was damaged by the shaking; and students in the laboratory of the University Museum were able to see the swaying of the towers above the Cruft High Tension Laboratory...
...first won his reputation as a story teller with the novels, "The Beginning of Wisdom" and "Spanish Bayonet". His earliest poetic piece was "Five, Men and Pompey", written in 1915 just after he graduated from Yale. This was followed by "Heaven and Earth", which, with its predecessor, announced a vigorous new voice in American poetry...
...first songs of the Harvard Glee Club will be "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore". After the intermission the Yale Glee Club will be heard again, in three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet on Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...