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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heads one of the dozen or so research projects that the Department of Physics and the Department of Engineering Sciences are now working on. With the help of graduate assistants, he is trying to solve this cosmic whodunit and thus win another battle in Harvard's war against the unknown...
Lord Brabazon argued that by its very nature, donors are not apt to be too numerous. "Anybody who desires a large family completely unknown and without sympathy, love, and personal contact with a woman, must be well on his way to a lunatic asylum," he said...
Ahead of the field thus far was bustling little Screenplays, Inc., which dusted off Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave (changing its hero from a Jew to a Negro) and put it on a sound stage under heavy secrecy with virtually unknown actors. The picture is already finished...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...
Professor Hocking declared that "no man is content without a touch of the unknown. The only man who is happy is one who knows how much he doesn't know...