Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initial Eastern Intercollegiate League basketball game of the current season, the Crimson tackles an unknown quantity, Brown's 1947-48 quintet, on the Indoor Athletic Building court tonight at 8.45 o'clock. Harvard's Freshman five will open the Blockhouse sports festivities at 7 o'clock against its Brain counterpart...
Once past the preparatory stage, once the known has been separated from the unknown, the Research Center will face its great problem. It will have to decide whether or not an attack on the unknown would be feasible in view of the findings to date. Although the Carnegie Foundation's grant of $100,000 is intended to last only until July 1, should Professor Kluckhohn and his executive committee favor continuing the work, further grants will surely be accessible. The University has entered auspiciously into a vital field with a unique, non-political, non-partisan plan. The comprehensive nature...
...group of matrons were trying to decide whether to take any more of this, or to go home. A tall, distinguished-looking man came rushing down the corridor. "Let's go, ladies," he called rudely. They fluttered out of his way, and he rushed by toward an unknown destination, clutching a bottle of Scotch in his arms. A weary woman murmured: "Oh dear, when will we become world-minded...
...libraries (they don't know what treasures they have, he says), pieced together unpublished cantatas, pages of which he found scattered through several countries. He once corresponded for five years with a Philadelphia dentist before getting to see a Handel letter that the dentist owned. He unearthed ten unknown Handel manuscript librettos in California's Huntington Library...
Conger taught Winant the requirements of modern warfare-manpower, factory output, raw materials, foodstuffs, and the then almost unknown science of psychological warfare. Winant spent two summers in the Shenandoah Valley, going over Stonewall Jackson's campaigns. Later he paid his own way to Paris and enlisted as a private in the A.E.F. (He came home a squadron commander in the Air Service...