Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard him as his best servant. Lucas told Smith some of his experiences among the baboons, explained the big scar on his head as the mark of a kick delivered by an ostrich whose nest he was raiding. His origin remained in doubt, but it was remembered that a native woman had lost a child years before while she was weeding a field...
TIME, like Reader Parker, could be wronger, but not much, about the origin of "stogies" (March 4, p. 2). They were invented in Washington, Pa., a town equidistant from Pittsburgh and Wheeling (about 30 miles). The following is from History of Washington County, Pennsylvania by Earle R. Forrest...
Despite "candling" under X-ray equipment usually used to penetrate and reveal flaws in military armament, the world's oldest known vertebrate egg, discovered by a Harvard expedition, failed to reveal its origin yesterday at the Watertown arsenal...
...said, represents the most primitive type to be laid on dry land, as distinguished from those deposited only in water. Determination of its origin would throw new light on the evolution of vertebrates from a lower form of life...
...kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been...