Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

On June twenty-sixth, the first C-47s landed at Tempelhof Airport - the beginning of the great operation that was to come.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

I was a first-year student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and was relaxing between classes at the student union building.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Also,the study says the United States fell from thirty-fourth to forty-ninth in female mortality and from forty-first to forty-fifth for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Berea College is a small Christian school in Berea,Kentucky, that pays all first-year costs for its foreign students.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07