pioneer

01. Robbie's great grandfather was one of the first [pioneers] to settle on a farm in Saskatchewan.

02. A lot of [pioneers] from Eastern Europe came to America to take up farming on the plains around the turn of the century.

03. During the early 1800s [pioneers] began claiming fertile areas of land beyond the Mississippi River.

04. One of the first things the [pioneers] did when they got to their new homes in the American west was buy land.

05. Some of today's young people will become the [pioneers] of the future in the field of science or computers.

06. As the [pioneers] travelled west, they often ran into Indians.

07. The General Hospital is [pioneering] a new treatment for the illness.

08. Because they often had no doctors, [pioneers] had to learn how to use plants to make their own medicines.

09. Many important medical discoveries have been discovered through the [pioneering] work of doctors at this hospital.

10. He has won a number of awards for his [pioneering] research in how babies learn language.

11. The university is [pioneering] a wonderful new vocabulary development program in its ESL courses.

12. Paula Nelson once suggested that going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of [pioneering] on the old frontier.

13. Thomas Watson once noted that once an organization loses its spirit of [pioneering] and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

14. Nancy Astor once noted that [pioneers] may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.