Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Aucassin and Nicolette was unknown to the general reader in England until Walter Pater first published his "Renaissance." Today it is known and ready by all and is considered the best love story in the world. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.50. Special price...
...addition it attains a recognized standing in the theatrical world by choosing its productions altogether from plays unknown on this side of the Atlantic. Some may criticize the club for proceeding along these untried lines; still there is a certain newness and charm in these plays which quite outweighs the audience's lack of familiarity. "The Dragon' should be especially happy in this respect, for Lady Gregory writes with the delicacy of Barrie and the humor of Dickens...
...together a "selected company of eminent scholars and special students" from the faculties of American colleges; in addition, men of international reputation will be invited. Lectures, conferences and round table discussions will be the method of study, which next summer is to be devoted particularly to international problems. An unknown benefactor has relieved the Institute of financial worries for three years; and with the announcement that Ambassador Davis is taking with him to London an invitation to Lord Robert Cecil to be present at its opening session, the Institute seems to be in the hands of energetic...
...before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
Today the French nation is honoring her noble dead by interring the veterans of an unknown Poilu in the Are de Triomphe. England likewise bows in reverent memory of her heroes by placing the body of an unknown "Tommy" in her most famous shrine, Westminster Abbey...