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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the alumni include 71,205 men and 552 women degree holders. A total of 4,081 of these,--4,068 men and 13 women,--are "lost," their whereabouts unknown to Harvard. As has been customary the men and women alumni are listed separately...
...organization to ask a group of unknown Freshmen to a rum punch implies that to make good with that organization Freshmen must come to the punch. And this is likely to lead men to the habit of drinking during their Freshman year, a thing that is not necessary either for any organization's success or for the success of Freshmen...
...which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...
...lovers were greeted with the unusual spectacle of an exhibition composed wholly of old masters. They were, advised Dealer Neumann, "choice examples of living art, works of older periods that deserve to survive for their great vitality and imaginative appeal." In a medieval painting of St. Mark by an unknown Austrian artist, visitors could find a cubistic treatment of planes; in a fantasy by the Flemish painter Pietr Huys, Carnival Scene, were strange suspensions of rods and dangling objects like the "mobiles" of U. S. Artist Alexander Calder. Two duelists on skates approach each other with impedimenta as weird...
...worst of the climb is confined to a steep sandstone slope near the top. Yet before the expedition reached its goal, Shiva Temple was touted as a "biological island" whose animal life, if any remained, must have been isolated from the "mainland" since the Ice Ages. These unknown creatures, evolving in their own way for thousands of years, would shed a brilliant light on the mechanics of evolution...