Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record of the Freshmen to date shows a tie for second place in the local class C league and only two matches in the lost column. The Eli team, on the other hand, is an unknown quantity. Freshman squash is a newly organized sport at New Haven, this year's team being the first to play outside matches...
...follow that he will receive the nomination. His position is analogous to that of Leonard Wood in 1920; he is too good for the nomination. The situation which developed in 1920 may yet be repeated in 1928. You remember that at that time, after much wrangling, Harding, a practically unknown politician was nominated. Then in the interim between the convention and the election, a reputation was brewed up for him. A great many, of course, will always vote the straight Republican or Democratic ticket because their fathers did before them, and the party leaders are rarely disappointed in counting heavily...
...people expect him to win. He is an outsider compared with Dawes and an unknown compared with Hoover. But he will go to the Republican convention with a block of fifty votes, and in a free-for-all convention wonders have been worked with less than fifty votes by other dark-horse Senators. First man in the field to declare himself for his party's nomination, spokesman of a large section of the Middle West, regular of regulars, and despite this fact the farmer's friend, fashioned by Heaven's hand as the perfect politician--this is Curtis of Kansas...
...penetrating gamma rays might be deflected from a metal target, as in simple x-ray tubes, and reveal unknown properties of bodies...
...circling silently, hungrily around a little house in Manhattan's tangled Greenwich Village. They had prowled darkly through abutting houses, peering out of windows, climbed walls, offered bribes. The bait was a baby. The baby's mother was Grace Mailhouse Burnham. The baby's father was unknown. Baby Vera had been eugenically conceived and born. Intelligent, well-to-do Mother Burnham had wanted a baby. These facts she admitted freely (TIME, Jan. 30). Newspapers empurpled columns with the history, speculated as to papa, collected opinions from bigwigs and gumchewers. To deepen the secret of her collaborator...