Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...
Evil Spirits. From earliest times through the Middle Ages, mental illness was taken to mean that the victim was "possessed" by evil spirits. For centuries people with abnormal mental quirks were either revered, treated as harmless "naturals," or chained, flogged or burned at the stake...
...Kempis more enduring than marble. The Imitation of Christ has probably been translated into more languages than any other book but the Bible (at least eight U.S. publishers have one or more editions currently in print).* It is a short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made to the simple question: how to be a Christian. In 15th Century Latin or in modern English, the words of Thomas à Kempis are unequivocal...
...have to wait at least two weeks more for their already once-postponed '51 Red Books. Editor Donald M. Maynard '51 announced yesterday. Threatened printers' strikes this summer, coupled with a temporary shortage of funds, has shifted delivery from last Monday, registration day, until Saturday, October 16, at the earliest...
...editor's bride is a born troublemaker. At her earliest opportunity she makes a pass at Wilde and never afterward forgives him for not tumbling. She high-pressures her guileless husband into a political career and into sabotaging his old friend's political prospects. She unearths and exploits the Wilde-Baxter love affair. She is clearly not the kind of woman who is useful around any town, and in the long run people find her out. After that, they live, more or less happily, ever after...