Historical clue formulations

• Upstart's goal — 2019-09-15
• Lonely place, so they say — 2019-04-10
• Where it's lonely at, it's said — 2014-12-28
• See 42-Down — 2014-01-26
• Lonely place, supposedly — 2000-12-01
• A lonely place, so they say — 1999-04-08
• Point of success — 1997-09-27
• Lonely place — 1996-09-22