Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traced-from a small co-operative association of newspapers in 1900 to a service with 1.200 member newspapers, 80,000 reporters, 131000 miles of leased wires and a $7,000,000 annual turnover. In 1920 Mr. Stone resigned. In 1921, on the occasion of the entombment of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, began a "splurge of flowery writing" the like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins and Luther Burbank, were cited as other points of departure for "flights of puerile...
Died. William S. Cherry, African explorer, discoverer of three unknown types of natives; drowned off the Mexican coast. On the S. S. Manchuria, some valuable papers blew across the deck. Explorer Cherry gave chase; the ship listed; he fell overboard...
Last night just as the bulk of the Yard's population was setting back to thoughts of divisional and theses, a small group of Seniors whose identity remains unknown took up a stand in front of Mower Hall and sent up a challenge to the musical genius of their classmates. Soon from all the surrounding dormitories erstwhile students poured out, coatless and shirtless, and joined in the ever swelling volume of song. Tin cans, fruit, and other missiles came from unfriendly windows, but even these and the remonstrances of two-Yard cops proved insufficient to dampen the vocal ardor...
Sirs: You state in TIME, March 7, that John A. Brashear, former distinguished astronomer of Pittsburgh was unknown to you.† We who knew him feel that you missed much. When his wife preceded him in death he wrote this timely epitaph: "Too often we've studied the stars together, to have any fear of the night." I've wondered whether anything was so poetically and appropriately written of him. when he went away from his beloved Pittsburgh-"into the night." MRS. JAMES A. HUSTON...
...UNKNOWN PORT-Christine W. Parmenter-Croivell ($2). Where a teashop's ship sailed...