Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garde Republicaine blazed around the Gare des Invalides. Bands played "The Star-Spangled Banner." General Pershing and Commander Savage proceeded at once to the Arc de Triomphe and the grave of the Soldat Inconnu. They had brought half a bronze wreath, the other half of which lay on the Unknown Soldier's grave in Arlington, Va. France's highest officialdom joined the Americans in two minutes of silence and a rigid salute, followed by Taps on a sad bugle through the drizzle...
...rained in Paris and 14,000 legionaries with their women folk formed into parade line. In their hands they held blue, white and red flowers. They marched; were cheered; cheered back cheerily. The rain stopped. Through the Arc de Triumphe they went?special privilege?and about the Unknown Soldier's tomb they dropped their red, white and blue posies...
...Douglas '30 and G. L. Lewis '30 have been retained as possible first string timber. F. A. Pickard '29 completes the list of Crimson jerseyed wingmen. Pickard has risen in the course of a single season from the class football ranks and is still very much of an unknown quantity...
...snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead, the X- ray-stopping metal. Impinging on the earth from an unknown source on the universe, these rays are apparently passing through all living things at all times, part of our natural environment. What of their effect on life? Whence do they come...
...world's record (40,820 ft.), last week lost his distinction. When he claimed the record, he was suspected; last week he seemed to rise to even greater heights, marked on his barograph as 42,650 ft. Suspecting officials had placed another barograph in his plane, unknown to Flyer Callizo, which registered only 14,764 ft. It is charged he inserted in the record-breaking barograph a sheet of paper with "42,650 ft." marked in invisible ink; when far out of sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made the false line visible. Last week...