Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestling dates back to earliest civilization. It is the one sport which never disappeared entirely from the earth and, along with running and jumping, it was the most natural form of exercise because it involved on equipment and provided an invigorating means of building muscles and developing health...
Recognition of the Chinese Communists at the earliest possible moment was recommended yesterday by John K. Fairbank, professor of History and an expert on Far Eastern affairs...
Whether clear and present danger could be shown or not, the fact of the matter was that the Reds intended to bring their plans to fruition "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit...
Hollywood, having recently discovered the hitherto untapped field of racial and religious prejudice, insensately to gather all the fur its as quickly as possible. "Pinky" is beyond the reach of the amateurism which dominated the earliest production; it may have just escaped an era of subtle melodrama-prejudice which is to come...
When the new chairs, 1400 of them, arrive in a few days, Sever's famed carved benches will be on their way to storage too-far tradition's sake, the chewed up boards are not being thrown away. The earliest carving yet found dates to 1882; later works include innumerable Harvard-Yale game scores, incised checkerboards, and the masterpiece, an entire crucifixion scene with attendant saints...