Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Orchestra, Band, and Choir have auditions during the week preceding the first day of classes.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

I have previously described how, during the week of the murder, Bridget spent the first few hot days scrubbing and ironing clothes.

A bright sun and brisk wind had the track in a fast condition for the first time this week and 8,280 St. Patty Day celebrants bet $842,617 on the well-prepared program.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

In western Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut, the Berkshires are at their vibrant prime the first week of October.

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Death is common in the first week and overall mortality is about 70 %, but increasing evidence points to favorable outcomes after aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and plasma exchange.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* During the first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.

* The first week of August is " Indian Week " for the Penobscot Tribe in Old Town, Maine.

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

A systematic review of randomized controlled trials published in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed up to one-third of the six-week effect of SSRI treatment can be seen in the first week.

In addition to his personal recollections, he had access to the records of Henry Chadwick, the game's first statistician and archivist.

On the game's first play from scrimmage, Brown raced 65 yards for a touchdown, giving Cleveland a 7-0 lead.

Spalding won 47 games and Barnes led the league in hitting at. 429 as Chicago won the first ever National League pennant, which at the time was the game's top prize.

The White Stockings, with Anson acting as player / manager, captured their third consecutive pennant in 1882, and Anson established himself as the game's first true superstar.

The game's designers took inspiration from the post-apocalyptic novels and movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ; the first edition rules cite Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Andre Norton's Star Man's Son ( also published as Daybreak-2250 A. D .), Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

The game's governing body in the United Kingdom is the Hurlingham Polo Association, which drew up the first set of formal British rules in 1874, many of which are still in existence.

True Reversi ( that according to the game's original rules ) starts with the board empty and the first 2 moves by each player are played into the middle 4 squares with no disk flips.

The game's first known-to-be reliable mention is in 21 August 1886 edition of The Saturday Review.

Super Mario Kart was the first game to feature playable characters from the Mario series other than Mario in a non-platforming game and the selection and different attributes of the characters is regarded as one of the game's strengths, IGN describing a well-balanced " all-star cast ".

Indeed, the Dolphins became the first team score a touchdown after receiving the game's opening kickoff.

For the first time in a Super Bowl, someone other than the game's referee tossed the coin.

During the late 1990s, the company published one of the first 3D MMORPGs: Meridian 59, which survives to this day in the hands of some of the game's original developers.

WinMaze is authored by Nils Schneider ( with thanks to Jens " Yoki " Unger who provided socket classes and created the first server version ) and Heiko " phoenix " Achilles provided the game's graphics.

* Titled " Hunting at 60 mph ", the Playstation 3 game Afrika features a Cheetah hunting a gazelle as the game's first " big game hunt ".

In the arcade mode, the game's first level is stage 3.

In the first Kingdom Hearts and in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Mushu is a summonable character, and in Kingdom Hearts II, the movie is featured as a playable world named " The Land of Dragons ", with the plot being changed to accommodate the game's protagonists ( Sora, Donald and Goofy ) and Mulan ( both as herself and as " Ping ") able to join the player's party as a skilled sword fighter.

After scoring the game's first run, Henderson was removed from the lineup.

These games featured both the show's title logo on the game's packaging and label and the first several notes of the theme song played on the title screen of the games.

On Coach's Corner, Cherry analyzes the game's first period and gives tips on various points of hockey, with MacLean acting as Cherry's foil.

On this and subsequent betting rounds, the player to act first may check or bet up to the game's limit.

On this and all subsequent betting rounds, the player whose face-up cards make the best poker hand will act first, and may check or bet up to the game's limit.

While the game's overall sound effects were designed by Hajime Wakai, the palette of vocal expressions for Yoshi were recorded by Kazumi Totaka, making Yoshi's Story the first game to feature a voice for the dinosaur.

He is held by many as the game's greatest identity acknowledged by being the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a Legend.

After the first HTML and image-rendering web browsers were introduced, members of the community developed the game's online documentation.

Darius II takes place sometime after the first Darius game ; the colonized planet Darius is recuperating from its invasion from the alien Belser Army thanks to that game's heroes Proco and Tiat.