Before his death in nineteen eighty-three, Eubie Blake was believed to be the only musician still living who had played ragtime music.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

No black man had played for a major league baseball team since eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

They had played together for fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

It was not until 1995 that former French President Jacques Chirac became the first French leader to officially admit the state had played an active role in the Holocaust.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

The study found that children who played video games "obsessively" had higher rates of depression, social fears and stress.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

Radio stations that had never played country and western music began to play Hank Williams' songs.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

One place near her home had a machine that played records.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Mama Hanson, played by actress Irene Dunne, had little education.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Never before had Rudolf played with such power.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Havens recently told this reporter that he had already been onstage for nearly three hours when he played that song, which suddenly sprang to mind from his doo wop and gospel days back in Brooklyn.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15