Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported that there is every indication that this tomb will take the same place in Russian hearts as the tombs of Unknown Soldiers do in the hearts of other peoples...
...ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps were then unknown. Underground canals carried the water to other points, at one of which a dam formed the pool of Siloam. At intervals shafts led down to the canals, through which the inhabitants drew up water in buckets. Elsewhere were inclined tunnels down to the canals, through which men could walk...
...University golf team will open its season this afternoon when it opposes Boston University at 3 o'clock at the Weston Country Club. The Boston University team is an unknown quantity since this is also its first match of the season. The University golfers have been held back all spring by inclement weather, and the difficulties of securing a course have further prevented intensive practice, so that the matches this afternoon will form the first serious tests...
Eventually the first outpourings of his unknown and youthful pen arrived before the public eye. By degrees he worked himself up the literary ladder, grew to know and to be known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile...
...fire which started from an unknown-source, damaged Massachusetts Hall, the oldest of the buildings in the Yard, Sunday morning to the extent of $5000. The fire was first discovered after it had eaten its way through a portion of the roof on the southern side of the building...