Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Duke has the 14th largest university library in the U.S., the second biggest university hospital in the South, a first-rate university school of forestry, and law and divinity schools that are rapidly moving into top rank...
...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
Last week Mrs. Cohen was able to sum up her experience: "What a headache being lucky can be!" Soon after the first night's excitement, the Cohens learned what it was like to be continually annoyed and worried. After a tractor was delivered at the apartment, they took steps to head off a deluge of heating units, thousands of cans of food, lawnmowers, furniture for bedroom and living room...
Last week in Boston, after five years of testing and observation, Drs. John G. Kuhns and Theodore A. Potter of the Robert Breck Brigham Memorial Hospital made the first public demonstration of a better way to restore mobility to arthritic knees. Drs. Kuhns and Potter had finally found a satisfactory material that would last: nylon membrane...
Three years ago, when he first got his Young People's Records, Inc. started, he asked questions in schools, children's centers, and in his own home (three children), to get an idea of what children want to hear. From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record -I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..." So Grenell put out plenty of that (The Little Fireman, The Circus Comes to Town...