Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...
...state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...
...exceptions.) But practically all diseases of the heart are brought to it. Hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and Bright's disease, cause 40% of heart troubles; rheumatic fever, 25%; syphilis, 10%; various other sicknesses, 15%. In only 10% of the cases are the causes listed as unknown...
This is the thirteenth competition for the trophy, which was given to the Topiarian Club by an unknown donor and competed for annually. The winner has his name inscribed on the trophy...
...plants have nervous systems, souls. A book giving a sympathetic account of the Hindu, his work and methods, sets forth: "The mysteries of nature are probed in Sir J. C. Bose's institute not by study of libraries or mechanical experiments, but primarily by communion with the unseen and unknown. Inspiration, imagination, intuition, vision?this is even a more romantic touch." All of which is ridiculous. "The passage from pseudo-research to the infantile fancies is an easy one."?Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal, Carnegie Institution...