Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power", subtracting "X", squaring "B" and adding "C", with as many other factors as the ingenuity of the author can devise...
...Monroe doctrine has been carried out elsewhere in te Americas time and again where a steady hand has been needed to keep the political cauldrom from upsetting. In Hali despite vague of "American actroties". It is generally admitted that the island has settled down to a prosperity unknown before American occupation. In others of the small "banana" republics, as O. Henry loved to describe, the more proscuce of a cool, giver American destroyer slipping into the harbor has completely discussed inciptent fire cracker revolutions...
...have no desire or intention of criticising the scientific work which has resulted in the discovery of those wonderful unknown substances called vitamines" said Mr. H. G. Lythgoe, director of the Division of Food and Drugs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the subject of what he called the "Vitamine Bunk". But I do wish to point at certain abuses which have been made by commercial houses, and the relation of these abuses to our Food and Drug laws and our false advertising...
...found, but only long, narrow tables like counters. This would seem to indicate that the students lived at an advanced stage of civilization, in which food was looked on merely as a necessity to be acquired as rapidly as possible. The society of the convivial board must have been unknown, at least to the more earnest and stole of the students...
...avalanche of honors is sweeping everything before it. Old favorites among the authors, finding their thrones tottering, protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...