Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several thousand square miles of unknown territory in the Yukon were mapped and explored by the National Geographic Expedition last spring, according to H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, leader of the expedition. Washburn lectured at the Geographical Institute last night...
...common impression that college men are growing soft, I believe that the present generation has more initiative, spirit, and intellectual ability than my contemporaries," he said. " A modern college youth would easily endure the hardships involved in working his way around the world and in visiting strange and unknown places. He would probably discover many things that I have missed, for he is an extremely keen persons...
...writers is carefully watched by such editors as Edward O'Brien, who collects anthologies of short stories and usually discovers at least one promising new author out of each season's crop. But poets are generally condemned to sing in the solitude of small magazines, unknown except to other poets, for long periods before their work receives the limited critical attention devoted to poetry in U. S. literary publications...
George Middleton, author of "The Unknown Lady," first informed Mr. Packard of the existence of a collection of voice records of actors of the last century. The trail finally led to the Players' Club, a society of actors in New York, where Booth had delivered the speeches for recording in April...
...spite of this record, Capt. Musick has remained virtually unknown to the public. He refuses to show off or make wisecracks for newsmen. He has never been known to stunt in a plane, never makes a flight without the most meticulous preparations, even refuses to tie up to a mark until it has been tested. Completely lacking in vanity, he refuses to discuss his career even with such close friends as Navigator Noonan, with whom he bunks when on duty...