Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
...Aviv, last week, celebrated not only the Passover but also its own 20th birthday. First city of the Zionists, founded on the sand dunes outside of Jaffa, Tel Aviv now resembles a small California town. Two-storied stucco houses line its shrubbed avenues. It has its own theatre, its opera house, about 50 schools. Its population verges on 50,000. Nothing but Hebrew is spoken in Tel Aviv...
...climax of Tel Aviv's celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...
...January papers led one to believe that this is the manuscript of Einstein instead of a manuscript of Einstein. I may say that no word of Professor Einstein has ever lent color to that notion. His paper is but one of a series of which it is neither the first nor the last, nor in any notable way distinguished from the others...
Last week, bandages were removed and Mrs. Wagoner did see. Her first remarks are not only a human document, but illustrate that the consequences of such operations may be as important to psychology as to personal happiness. Mrs. Wagoner described her sensations as follows...