Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Custis Knapp (retired) strikes this page, let him read below. TIME is unable to locate Mr. Knapp who, on July 30, addressed a letter to TIME on letterhead of the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Mr. Knapp (newsstand buyer) has never registered at the Drake; is unknown to Mr. Drake and to Drake employes and to frequenters of the Drake lobby. His letter (mailed in New York) prompted H. C. Wood of Germantown, Pa., last week to write...
...Unknown Soldier buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is one of 70 men whose names are all known. Such is the efficiency of the grave's registration corps of the War Department-99.9% perfect. The War Department last week announced that for the 77,771 death in the A. E. F., 77,701 burials were now recorded. Of these, 46,284 bodies were returned to the U. S.; 30,812 remained in Europe; 605 were sent elsewhere. At the time of the report, only four more bodies remained to be sent home from Europe in compliance with...
...return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving of his torch, reached a hitherto unknown exit after wandering 70 miles through dark and crusted corridors...
...Mesopotamia, home of Nebuchadnezzar, birthplace of Abraham, the joint digging of the Brit- ish Museum and the University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
...Koilikuntla, India, the soft padding paws of leprosy touched the face of a betel-nut dealer, name unknown. As he sat by himself, as he fingered the decayed horror of his nose and mouth, there arose in his mind a hideous obsession. At last he gathered some companions about him. Mumbling with loose, torn lips, he made his thoughts clear to them. "I," said...