Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week while it was still unknown whether these football men were to report, Coach Edward Wachter had a chance to look the other players over. Captain O'Connell is rapidly developing as a forward, and has improved over the form he showed last year. Wenner is the most experienced man on the team and his work last year has stood him in good stead. T. E. Farrell '31, who captained the yearling quintet a year ago, is continuing to show the same high brand of basketball at his guard position standing out well above the other candidates...
...last another oasis has appeared in a prolonged desert. Mr. Hoover has taken up the task so admirably started by Colonel Lindbergh in offering gratuitous lessons in geography. The daily papers are continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...iconographic collection recently presented to Harvard contains a good deal of material hitherto entirely unknown in the West, and we hope that it will be used to good advantage by those members of this University who are interested in the civilization of Eastern Asia...
...forbidden to foreigners. Even in those regions where Westerners have penetrated, the inhabitants are not unnaturally hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage of development from totally different sources becomes less inexplicable than first sight would seem to indicate...
...first conspicuous victory was greeted with Union-wide exultation, and curiosity as to this unknown U. S. ("Unconditional Surrender") Grant. Journalists glossed their ignorance with fantastic tales of Grant riding casually to battle, coat un buttoned, cigar in mouth. Immediately the hero was deluged with boxes of cigars -10,000 in quick order - and though he gave hundreds away, "having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since...