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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...
...UNKNOWN QUANTITY-Hermann Broch-Viking...
...critics, last year waded through a huge post-War German novel called The Sleep-Walkers. In Germany where it was widely read, its author, Hermann Broch, was known respectfully as a onetime businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...
...Richard's career progressed from Ph.D. to assistant at the observatory and collaborator in research, he had moments when his equation felt the lack of some unknown quantity. When a pretty girl student made eyes and legs at him, he began to blunder toward a solution. But the answer he hit on wore spectacles. Meantime young Otto was struggling with the agonizing fractions of adolescence: he suspected his best friend and his mother of at least wanting to be lovers, and because none of them had the wit to stop him in time, ran off one night and drowned...
...with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting between casual beds and bars, writing his ex-wife vague British congratulations from a cafe in Venice; to prolific Mrs. Ramage in the maternity ward, more pleased by the tulips from an unknown lady than by the birth of one more little Ramage; to the middle-aged carpenter's wife whose baby, after an agonizing labor, was born dead (it would have had no silver rattle in any case); to rich, ugly Dorothy, whose hen brain mercifully was unable to tell...