Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel our greatest accomplishment is to remove the pattern of fear of the unknown...
Sometimes the unknown is less feared than the known, and there is grave doubt that the Air Force has found the answer to its problem. Men can be given spiritual stamina through spiritual training; they can achieve physical stamina through physical training. There is no evidence that they can become immune to torture by small doses of torture...
...French frigate. He is credited with raising the first British flag over conquered Montreal. In the American Revolution, he served in battle against the American Continentals in the New Jersey campaign, later rose to become a lieutenant general and commander of Quebec. But as an artist Davies was almost unknown until a portfolio of his watercolors turned up in 1953 m England, in the Earl of Derby's old library at Knowsley Hall. The New York Public Library bought the U.S. scenes, and Canada's National Gallery snatched up the Canadian watercolors at bargain prices...
...birth date is unknown. No copy of his autograph is known to exist, and none of his paintings was signed. The only completely reliable contemporary reference to him appears in documents drawn up only three years before his death in 1510. What is known is that when he died in Venice from the plague, at about the age of 33, the gentle beauty of paintings like his famous Tempest had established such a vogue for scenes of Arcadian reverie that a decade later, even Titian was still turning them out to meet the customers' demands...
...Lightning Judgment." Hill's takes thousands of bets by word of mouth, some just before race time, but a dispute is almost unknown, even though British law does not recognize gambling debts. Nevertheless, Hill's credit losses run to only 0.5% of the total, a record that a department store might envy...