Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorry that two items were omitted from your article . . . First, the names of the students who were most closely associated with the isolation of streptomycin in 1943-Miss Doris Jones, Dr. Albert Schatz, Miss Elizabeth Bugie and Dr. H. Christine Reilly. Second, the fact that Dr. Dubos did his work on tyrothricin at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, to which he was appointed after receiving his degree at Rutgers in 1927. A casual reading of the article might convey the impression that this most significant work was done in our laboratories...
Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
...Bell had his first look at some of Costello's operations (slot machines and Louisiana's Beverly Country Club) while working on TIME'S cover story on New Orleans' Mayor "Chep" Morrison in November, 1947. Some months ago, when he began working on the Costello cover in earnest, Bell first went to the law enforcement agencies in Washington and New York. Then, armed with what the law knew about Costello, he set out on his own in the gambler's backyard: New York City. At first it was very frustrating. Costello sources did not want...
...they are not altered." What he should have said, he explained apologetically at his press conference next day, was "which altereth not." But however his memory had served him, no one could mistake the meaning of the President's welcoming toast to his guest, the Shahinshah of Iran, first Oriental monarch to make a state visit to the U.S. since...
...ensemble, which will be making its first appearance in this vicinity, will be led by Safford Cape. Included in the 12 man group will be five singers and performers on the viol, lute, recorder, and the minstrel's harp...