41.   Midwesterners with artistic and social ambitions had to test their powers away from home, first on the East Coast and then in Europe.

42.   New episodes will continue to air first on public broadcasting.

43.   Normal journalistic restraint has been abandoned by the broadcast media in their competition to be first on the air with titillating allegations.

44.   Republicans were first on the national level to see the possibilities that soft money presented.

45.   Richard Voigt had served as a Wehrmacht soldier in a tank division, first on the French front and then in Russia.

46.   She pursued her career in writing and teaching, while he pursued his career, first on the basketball court and then in Washington.

47.   The companies planned to begin construction first on the gas pipeline and then lay the oil line alongside it.

48.   The Department of Energy was first on his list, although he said that the Department of Commerce also deserved scrutiny.

49.   The Concerned Christians were first on their list.

50.   The decathlon competition is first on the schedule Friday.