Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses. The climb is long, its turns wearying: the elevator is inconveniently placed, and all too often it is in flight when most desired; but the reward is silence, less confusion, generally greater comfort than is possible in the main Reading Room. To many students the special libraries were unknown before the introduction of the Reading Period last January; this spring has seen an increased use of them, and at present they function as a highly valuable release for the overcrowding on the second floor...
...Technology netmen are reputed to be rather weak. They were recently defeated by West Point, and although their strength as a whole is unknown. Coach Cowles expresses confidence that the Crimson team will be able to handle the Engineers...
...this age of scientific enlightenment, fields that to the tyro are virtually unknown possess an importance which is seldom appreciated. Although the cause of climatology to which Professor R. DeC. Ward's Milton Fund grant is to be devoted is little known to the public, it has a constantly growing significance to the layman as well as to the scientist. Physicians, geologists, geographers, botanists, and zoologists all these use elimatology in their specialized fields and pave the way for its comprehensive use by the layman in his daily life...
...many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...
...Another important consideration is the greater carrying capacity of planes in the Arctic," continued Stefansson. "The cold air is heavy, in addition to being variably clear. 'Air pockets are also unknown in the polar regions...