Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bowdoin nine is more or less an unknown quantity...
...Topeka, Kan., last week one Bearcat Wright of Omaha, unknown black fighter, knocked out Jack Johnson, once heavyweight champion of the world, in five rounds...
While the eyes of the world were sweeping the Atlantic, anxious, fearful of the fate of two flying Germans and an Irishman, a tiny plane droned its way across the unknown waste and terror of the Arctic. Impervious to disappointment, danger, tragedy, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson took off unannounced from Point Barrow, Alaska, came down for five dismal days on uninhabited Doedmansoeira (Dead Man's Island), arrived last week triumphant at the haven of Spitzbergen...
...Your elucidation of Hoover and "Hooverism" [TIME, March 26] was the clearest thing we have had yet. We recently had a city election in Seattle. A successful business man, unknown in politics, opposed by every newspaper and every political agency in the city, won out by the most sweeping majority in the history of Seattle. Like Hoover, he was a "rotten" talker; knew nothing about politics, but the people were willing to judge him by his accomplishments and looked with scorn upon the scathing efforts of the political agencies that sought his defeat...
Among books recently received is a little volume of A.A. Milne's published by Methuen and Company, London, in 1926. This collection of Milne's Verse is called FOR THE LUNCHEON INTERVAL, and is comparatively unknown in this country...