21.   He had survived a three-walk bases-loaded jam in the first by striking out Jim Thome and retired the side in order in the second.

22.   He discovered he had a natural gift for the game, which came in handy at first by earning him dimes and quarters.

23.   He used Tuesday to take a step towards returning to first by lessening the rigidity of the tape job on his sprained left ankle.

24.   Her victory was the first by a Mexican woman in a major international marathon and has created a commotion in the Spanish-language news media.

25.   His book was the first by a potter in England that did not talk about techniques but about art.

26.   Horrified at first by conditions in the camp, Dr. Walser said she initially wrote diagnoses for whoever wanted to leave.

27.   Hunter nearly got picked off first by the right-hander, who caught him leaning and put him in a rundown.

28.   However, the second study goes further than the first by including in the analysis heterosexual brothers of the homosexual pairs.

29.   In on-time arrivals, the carrier jumped from eighth a year ago to first by January.

30.   In his speech at the Reichstag Tuesday, the first by a foreign head of state since its renovation, Chirac maintained that theme.