Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unknown factors in the 1928 campaign-intolerance, hypocrisy, appetite, snobbery, conservatism, magnetism, pocket-nerve-none is more incalculable than the possession, for the first time in history, of a competitive campaign fund by the Democratic Party. Up to Sept. 30 the Republican fund reported was $1,460,834. The Democratic fund as of October 15 was $2,753,192, of which $2,555,353 had been expended. Both parties expected to spend at least $4,000,000 before the fight was done...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
Detective Thomas J. Tunney of the New York City police department, brother of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney,* was put on the trail of two unknown young men who had robbed an automobile of a $8,474 payroll, in the bright morning sun, near an entrance to Central Park, Manhattan. The young men were very bold about it, told the old man and the girl bookkeeper who were guarding the payroll to "Shut up." Detective Tunney, recently promoted, has a reputation of getting...
Last week, elated, he announced that he saw microbes hitherto unknown to science. They were shaped like rods and linked in chains. They produced spores, such as many known microbes and toadstools and mushrooms develop...
...injury to one of the regulars, however, is one of the questions which may decide the outcome of Saturday's game. Howard and Farris, veteran lettermen of last season, are counted upon to hold their own, but the strength of the untried reserves in this department is an unknown quantity...