Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came here unknown with a young friend. We were just two young men from Cambridge, but even then we were received with the courtesy and hospitality that Canadians always show. I imagine the population of Canada has doubled in the 37 years since I was last here, and I am eager to see the progress I know has been made...
...learned, scholastic doctors of Leyden University were titillated last week by an announcement that "Mejuffrouw* Louise Van Buren" will began to study at Leyden next September, majoring in Dutch law and literature. Mejuffrow Louise, 18, is not unknown or unbeloved in Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will...
...Both were German contemporaries, both suffered cruel affliction, neither married. With that the similarity ends. Where Beethoven, the austere, cried out in the music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over...
...days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal to cancer searchers many an unknown detail of the disease...
...hard to imagine Mr. Ford so wrapped in cotton wool that the major activity of his own magazine was unknown to him; that he was as unaware of what the Dearborn Independent was doing as if he had been a Tibetan monk."?New York...