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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buie, Geology Section Man, Leaves on Persian Survey | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JANGLED OUT OF TUNE | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...sense the Unknown is not Fate or a Divine Providence or the hand of God. It is the mind of man, struggling against odds sometimes insuperable to find out about the world in which we live and move and have our beings. The Hindenburg was just such a struggle; it was once a mere figment of the imagination of men, men of prophetic soul, dreaming on things to come. Its flight was just as much of a victory as any adventure that enlarges the horizons of men and its fall more clamitous than any academic disaster, since it proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JANGLED OUT OF TUNE | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...Cornell eight that is of unknown quality but believed to be strong will tackle the Midshipmen, who boast one of the outstanding sprint crews crews in the nation. Harvard faces Cornell a week from today and Navy on the 29th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy-Cornell Clash | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...addition to being inventors, the Mauchs are pugilists, speculators, sportsmen, collectors and litterateurs. As litterateurs, the Mauchs have written several scenarios for themselves and other Warner actors. None has so far been accepted. Their tastes in reading are catholic. Recently Billy Mauch read Alexis Carrel's Man, the Unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mauch Twins & Mark Twain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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