Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...string of ponies will be shipped to Rye, New York, in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament, which starts Saturday afternoon with games between Yale and Princeton, and Pennsylvania Military Institute and West Point. Harvard drew a bye in the first round, and its second round opponent is still unknown. The team leaves Cambridge Saturday morning for observation of future rivals, and for the dinner Saturday night at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club...
...official representatives of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in Kansas City (see p. 26), who, a fortnight ago, invited a prizefighter to address their conference. The prizefighter was famed Jack Johnson, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion, in 1912 convicted of white slave trafficking, a month ago battered, by an unknown Negro, out of a prize ring, who said...
...dirigible Norge over the North Pole. Seventy-one freezing hours of flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...
...become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...
Further, it may be true that these congenital defectives are doomed because their mothers suffered emotional or physical stress during the antenatal period. It must be allowed as a hypothesis, because any hypothesis is allowable when the facts are as yet unknown. But unless the number of endocrinal defectives (and consequently of criminals) is enormously large, it is not extremely plausible . Few mothers escape grave occasion for worry, and most of them are obliged to perform rather laborious tasks during the critical period. There has been a marked advance in this respect within recent years, still, ideal conditions are anything...