Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive...
...Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent to Jay Gould for $30,000, the last stick of sealing wax he had been gnawing from when he quit was still reposing...
...winter's first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest's corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians...
...Crimson '63 eleven, it was a disappointing end to a 2-4 season, especially after the team had jumped to a seemingly safe lead in the first period. The Yardlings opened the scoring then with a beautiful play in which Kinnney handed off to Hobie Armstrong, who headed around right end on a reverse, suddenly stopped, and flipped to end Ron Bonebrake in the end zone. Taking advantage of a few breaks and continuing to move the ball well, the Crimson scored again on a Kinney to Taylor aerial...
...Yale struck back, first with a blocked punt that went behind the end zone for a safety and two points, then with a touchdown. After the half, Kinney continued to play effectively, but the Bullpups began to pass and run through the Yardlings almost at will. They soon closed the gap to 24 to 22 and, minutes later, scored the clincher on a six-yard plunge by Dave Weinstein to remain undefeated...