Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of accuracy please include Cape May, N. J. Here we have not only one of the largest dirigible hangars in the world but airplane hangars and other equipment constituting a large naval and air station, costing millions of dollars. For reasons unknown, this huge plant is not used, despite its strategic position, located on an excellent deep harbor and near the mouth of the Delaware...
...instance, to point out at some length the irony latent in the fact that Walt Whitman's fame exists solely among the "scholar swells" he despised, and that he is absolutely unknown to the commonality of man for whom he professed to write, or that the incredibly ornate pish-posh of Henry James is explained by his belief that legible and comprehensive language of any sort is very vulgar, just, for instance, as an editor of the Harvard Crimson believes that any news anybody could conceivably want to read is very vulgar and therefore unprintable, to point out these...
...There are three possibilities concerning the unknown fish's identity," Dr. Barbour said. "It may be a new species altogether, or it may be a member of the 'Brama Longinpennis' or 'Brama Agassizii' species...
...longer the new tax rates remain unknown, the longer must business be restless. Washington wiseacres interpreted the Smoot-Mellon "delay" as an adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...
Immunity. Dr. Malcolm Herman Soule of the University of Michigan presented a theory that disease germs occur in two forms-one virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...