Word: oldest
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...Crimson beat the Elis by 71 seconds, perhaps the largest margin in the history of the event, and certainly an inauspicious beginning for Yale in the new running of the oldest intercollegiate event...
Neither Cameron nor Morelli is willing to claim categorically that their bacteria are the world's oldest living organisms. But if the ancient origin of the bacteria is finally established, it will have great implications for scientists searching for life on Mars. Even if the Viking Landers, which are scheduled to visit Mars in 1976, find no evidence of life on the planet's dry and frigid terrain, the Antarctic discovery holds out hope that living organisms-perhaps dormant-might still exist beneath the Martian surface...
Harvard expansion is already pushing hard on my community, one of the oldest black communities in New England. We cannot survive the new development that the Kennedy Library would bring to both sides of the Square. When they built the courthouse in East Cambridge, Vellucci was very upset at all the traffic the courthouse would bring. He should show as much compassion for my community...
...night when the signal came for the drama to begin. It was a folk song, called "Grandola," broadcast over one of the local radio stations at half past midnight. By 6 a.m., Lisbon was completely surrounded by rebel troops; 12 hours later, Portuguese dictator Marcello Caetano surrendered, and the oldest fascist government in Europe was toppled...
During his five years in Paris, Jefferson was attended by his quadroon slave girl, Sally Hemings, who-to complicate matters-had been fathered by his father-in-law. Though she could have technically claimed freedom in France, Sally and her oldest son remained slaves when Jefferson returned to Washington in 1789 to become Secretary of State. Although the details of the relationship have never been clear, Brodie claims that in 38 years Jefferson had seven children by Sally Hemings. Her prominent place in Brodie's biography offers one of the few rational clues to Jefferson's ambiguous position...