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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 6/26/08: Why were 'first responders' de-contaminated at the Pentagon? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Why were \'first responders\' de-contaminated at the Pentagon? ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

I recognize this puts me a bit at odds with the first commenter, but Epicurious is usually my *first* archive to search, given how it draws on decades of recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A lot of this work has produced some exciting physical chemistry including the first observation of gravitational separation of isotopes and gases in a column..first predicted by Gibbs and observed many tens of decades later. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The music played in the orchestra was very beautiful; and the officer, who had behaved so politely to us in permitting the gates, on the first night of our arrival, to be opened, seated on a high stool, rose conspicuously above the other musicians, and seemed indeed the _first fiddle_. ❋ William A. Ross (N/A)

To manure their date-groves they use the fins of a species of ray fish called _awwal_, steeped in water till they are putrid; _awwal_, by the way, was an ancient name of the Island of Bahrein, perhaps because it was the first island of the group in size, _awwal_ in Arabic meaning _first_. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)

She feared that when for the first time I found myself not _first_ considered in all arrangements, I might fail in those particular points of conduct in which she was most anxious I should triumph. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Of course, at such first meeting, all the preliminaries prescribed as forming the _first_ movement of the act should be carried out _to the limit_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The first legislature of Virginia was convened under the administration of Governor Sir George Yeardley, in the year 1626; but before this we find, during the _first_ administration of Governor ❋ Various (N/A)

A mortality of 53 for the first four years of life is smaller than any district known in the United States, even to-day, can show for the _first_ year of life _alone_. ❋ Paul Popenoe (1933)

Aesthetic_ that the _concept_ depends upon the _intuition_, which is the first degree, the primary and indispensable thing, so it is proved in the _Philosophy of the Practical_ that _Morality_ or _Ethic_ depends upon _Economic_, which is the _first_ degree of the practical activity. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

That is, the second phrase contrasts with the first; _the third corroborates the first_; and the fourth either resembles the second, or contrasts with all three preceding phrases. ❋ Percy Goetschius (1898)

My first wife -- my _first_ wife, gentlemen, she was English. ❋ Unknown (1897)

As soon as an inflammation starts, the first thing that nature does is in the line of enforcing the _first law of cure, _namely: _rest. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this _first_ conscious stilling of the instinct for right? ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

Thus, 104603 means that we place a pig in the first row of the _first_ column, in no row of the _second_ column, in the fourth row of the _third_ column, in the sixth row of the _fourth_ column, in no row of the _fifth_ column, and in the third row of the ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)

The observation irresistibly comes, that on the scene of the first battle of the Mexican War -- a war inaugurated for the acquisition of slave territory -- and of the _first_ battle participated in by Lieutenant-General (then Second Lieutenant) U. S. ❋ Joseph Warren Keifer (1884)

We may take first a certain number of comparatively short dialogues, which are strongly Socratic in the following respects: _first_, they each seek a definition of some particular virtue or quality; _second_, each suggests some relation between it and knowledge; _third_, each leaves the answer somewhat open, treating the matter suggestively rather than dogmatically. ❋ John Marshall (1880)

Louis Hebert was the first proprietor in Quebec, the first land owner in Canada; as such, historians recognize him as the first Citizen of Quebec -- the _first Canadian_: a surgeon, let us bear in mind. ❋ Unknown (1868)

When we come to the offerings enumerated in v. 14, we notice that they are mentioned in the almost invariable _order of enumeration_ -- first the burnt-offering, then the sin-offering, and lastly the peace offering; but when in v. 16 we come to the offering up of the sacrifices, we notice that _as always_ the sin-offering is the _first to be offered_. ❋ James Hudson Taylor (1868)

It is a mere empty dream, unworthy of a serious consideration by any mind imbued with the first principle of inductive science -- namely, that all science is the orderly knowledge of facts; and whose first rule is, _first ascertain your facts_. ❋ Robert Patterson (1857)

[Markiplier] uploads a [video] 9 [yr] old: First 10 yr old: FIRST!! etc ❋ Darth That Makes Words (2021)

Mike: "[Yeah bro], I totally wrote first on that article." [Allen]: "Thats not [douchey] at all." ❋ Ronmex7 (2009)

Retard on [a youtube] video: first [yaaay]! Me: [nobody cares]... ❋ A Dying Goat (2020)

(looking at video on [collegehumor.com].. there are no [comments] yet) you writing the first [comment] : fIRST ❋ Dtsergiu (2009)

he was there first ❋ Reformedpug (2016)

first [Edit], also [great] [video]! ❋ Cinf (2020)

Ashley: "Wasn't Bobby your first?" [Claire]: "Yes, [I love him] & am glad I waited to lose [my virginity] to him." ❋ Brutha From A Nutha Mutha, Yo. (2011)

[Little Foot] was a [non-factor] in the game except for [that time] he called first. ❋ Tank Miller (2011)

I was first to [comment]! ❋ We Are Number One Est (2017)

[First]! First like and [comment] [1st] ❋ AntiRix (2018)