Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm has a perfect right to sell the Apocrypha if they so desire, but no one has a right to suggest to the public that they are something hitherto unknown. I wonder that you would permit such misleading statements to be made in your advertising columns...
...62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue to lead in this comparative anthropology of legislative man. . . . The acts of Congress as a whole are not accidental but work according to laws yet unknown...
...Romans remove it to Byzantium, and did it crumble in the fire that consumed that city in 475 A. D.? Phidias, with money enough to settle the claims against him, went back to Athens and started there his famous school of sculptors. The rest of his story is unknown...
...might really have something the matter. In the singles, Molla Mallory beat Joan Fry of England, Mlle. H. Conto-slavos of France beat Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Mlle. Lenglen, after displaying a physician's certificate that forbade her to take part in any vigorous match, beat the unknown Mrs. Dewhurst...
...Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown blasphemer suffered, it is said, from a temporary attack of insanity...