The earliest citation for " big apple " is the 1909 book The Wayfarer in New York, by Edward Martin, writing: " Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city.

The form Nazara is also found in the earliest non-scriptural reference to the town, a citation by Sextus Julius Africanus dated about 221 CE ( see " Middle Roman to Byzantine Periods " below ).

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

The earliest citation comes from J. Durham ’ s Heaven upon Earth, 1685, ii.

The earliest citation known is from 1946, in Startling Stories.

The earliest citation for " Vietcong " in English is from 1957.

The earliest citation of this word appears in Nihon Kokugo Daijiten in 1971.

The name haček ( with no long mark ) appears in most English dictionaries ; the Oxford English Dictionary gives its earliest citation as 1953.

" The OED's earliest citation is to a mention in Rosamond Lehmann's 1946 work The Gipsy's Baby.

The earliest citation is December 17, 1993 in the St. Petersburg Times:

The earliest known dictionary reference was a 1960 OED citation.

( The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1917.

The earliest known print citation of chickenhawk in this sense was in the June 16, 1986 issue of The New Republic.

While this quote may have been popularized by Graham in this speech, and the phrase is often credited to him in this speech, these words are not original with him, nor with this speech, the phrase having been used repeatedly in the Post in the 1940s, and by Graham in the 1950s, with the earliest citation being 20 years, by Alan Barth in 1943, writing " News is only the first rough draft of history ," and earlier expressions of similar sentiments dating at least to the 1900s ( decade ) – see Wikiquote article for details.

" The earliest citation is a 1773 letter by Benjamin Franklin.

The earliest citation of this integration is the work of Irwin and Von Cube, as related by Florian et al.

The earliest citation given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1844: previously, simpler terms such as " post " appear to have been used.

The church contains much cast iron in its structure, and its citation in the National Heritage List for England states it has " one of the earliest and most thorough uses of industrial materials in a major building ".

The earliest online citation recorded is a reference to it being used in 1982, describing InConJunction, a science fiction convention in Indiana ; the high proportion of science fiction fans on Usenet, and the Internet generally, in early years no doubt helped spread it into the wider computing community.

The OED cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force ; as of 2003 the earliest citation there is a quote in the 1983 book Air War South Atlantic.

" The earliest citation given for this meaning is from 1833.

' Wonderful World of Sound ' features the earliest known citation of the phrase " Something for The Weekend.

The term originated in New York City, probably in the 1930s ( the Oxford English Dictionary provides an earliest citation of 1941 ), but the institutions date back at least fifty years before the nickname was applied to them.

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

( In Hubbard's earliest publications on the subject, engrams were variously referred to as " Norns ", " Impediments ," and " comanomes " before " engram " was adapted from its existing usage at the suggestion of Joseph Winter.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

The earliest known usage of huanghou was in the Han Dynasty.

The grammatical description in the earliest books was somewhat vague, so a consensus on usage ( influenced by Zamenhof's answers to some questions ) developed over time within boundaries set by the initial outline ( Auld 1988 ).

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

The earliest known usage of nixtamalization was in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala around 1500 – 1200 BC.

The coining of the term " joystick " may actually be credited to Loraine, as his is the earliest known usage of the term, although he most certainly did not invent the device.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The Oxford English Dictionary records its earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an article by Edward Hunter in New Leader published on 7 October 1950.

The earliest extant usage of Prakrit is the corpus of inscriptions of Emperor Asoka.

The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.

Along with McCartney's usage, some of the earliest Rickenbacker bass players were Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, John Entwistle of The Who, and Peter Quaife of The Kinks.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

A variety of injection systems have existed since the earliest usage of the internal combustion engine.

Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest United States patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were in common usage in that country, in 1883.

In fact, the name " Al-Urdun " ( Jordan ) was used on Umayyad post-reform copper coins beginning in the early 8th century and represent the earliest official usage of the name for the modern state.

Deep-fried chips ( slices or pieces of potato ) as a dish may have first appeared in Britain in about the same period: the Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest usage of " chips " in this sense the mention in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( published in 1859 ): " Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil ".

The earliest recorded usage in English of the word edamame is in 1951 in the journal Folklore Studies.

An early example of the usage of hydraulic wheel, probably the earliest in Europe, is the Perachora wheel ( 3rd c. BC ).

The earliest known such usage in English was John Gower's in Confessio amantis ( 1390 ):

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates to an 1808 short story describing a spread of " fire-cakes and dough-nuts.

Its earliest known usage on the Internet may have been on the Usenet newsgroup talk. bizarre.