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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...
...cutting chapel too often. He later found that the Columbia School of Journalism "had all the intellectual status of a training school for future employees of the A. & P." The "colorless, odorless and tasteless" Times fired Liebling from its copydesk for identifying an unidentified basketball referee as "Ignoto" ("unknown" in Italian). He quit his next job on the Providence Journal when the publisher fired a reporter to make room for the son of a local bigshot. (Liebling dedicates his book "to the foundation of a school for publishers, failing which, no school of journalism can have meaning...
...hope I shall die when I am old, and at a place unknown...
...Evidence. Step by step, the committee had weighed the evidence. First of all, Horn's transcript was suspiciously complete to have been copied from diaries he had described as "moth-eaten" and partly illegible. The papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said...
...Amazon region is tough to explore on the surface, and almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...