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The 1983 edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate introduced the practice of giving, in the etymologies, “dates of earliest occurrence,” data presumably derived from the Oxford English Dictionary (for, while Merriam and Random House maintained a citation file for the tracking of new words and senses, there was no point in duplicating work done long ago by Murray, et al.)
Black slaves from Africa also arrived in the earliest years of the colony.
According to Meikle, there is no evidence that Type O is the earliest blood type--quite the opposite since A and B occur in chimpanzees.
The earliest and most magnificent item in the current show is a bright salmon-pink English lady's ensemble from 1708, made of silk damask brocaded in bold patterns with multicolored silk floss and metallic thread.
When infection prevalence declines below 1%, the potential for missing mosquitoes infected with the earliest larval stages and for misidentifying the species of filarial larvae found within mosquitoes increases.