Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to most biographers, Nancy Hanks was the illegitimate child of an unknown father...
...Queen, unknown to her dresser, ordered the gramophone removed because it took up too much space. Two days later rain threatened, and no galoshes were to be found. Wild with worry, the royal dresser approached Mr. Wilter. Mr. Wilter took steps. Radios hummed and telephone lines crackled across the veld. In time the royal family reached the end of their tour and returned to London...
Swamp fever (or equine infectious anemia) was almost unknown in New England until last spring. It may have been brought in by an infected horse shipped from Florida. The infection had been spread presumably by blood-sucking insects. Cases began to pop up at various New England tracks, chiefly at Rockingham...
...good to be reminded that human dignity and greatness still exist and are still newsworthy. It was wood to have the curtain withdrawn for a little on our newest troubled probings into the unknown, the terrifying vistas and apocalyptic visions of the Atom...
...forms of things unknown, the poet...