Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early cartographers located the sea in different parts of the unknown ocean, populated it with hideous mythological monsters...
...such a small voice are mighty schemes made known. This All- American company may serve U. S. opera as the innumerable little municipal opera houses of Europe have served Italian, French, German opera?making it familiar to the people outside great metropolises, giving unknown composers, singers, a hearing. It will do this if Fortune again goes where Gallo goes...
...most amazing item in this balance sheet is that of the Pacific (commonly called ''South Sea") Islands. Most of this comparatively unknown development has occurred in the Dutch East Indies. Unfortunately, the aboriginal character of these populations render the value of a "conversion" doubtful; and most leaders of missionary enterprise are frank to say in effect: "Better one Chinaman or Jap than fifty Islanders." And working-over the figures as a whole, missionary generals reflect that their banners wave more brightly over dusky people with a low order of indigenous culture than they do in the ancient sunlight...
...Morningside Games, held at a Manhattan armory two days later, Nurmi was scheduled to run in the 1? mile Special. The evening wore on; time came for the race; Nurmi did not appear. A messenger was sent to him, where he lurked in some hiding place unknown to all but his manager, Hugo Quist. Back came the messenger with the news that Nurmi would not run. At this, Manager Quist put on his coat, proceeded to a Turkish bath where Nurmi had been spending the evening, fetched him back. The flying Finn gave evidence of morose spirits. He had contracted...
...died without issue. It was, however, revived by Queen Anne in 1711 in favor of Robert Harley, a great Tory leader of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury (position nearly equivalent to the then unknown premiership). In 1853 it again fell into abeyance to be revived now in favor of H. H. Asquith, who doubtless chose it owing to his close connections with the great university...