Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton team, which was rather disappointing last year when it was defending a hard-won title, is again an unknown quantity, though one of its members is a star of some possibilities, I. H. Clothier, who will be seen at the important number 3 position. H. L. Crawford will play number 1. W. L. Colket number 2, and H. R. Erdman, back. These players are all new with the exception of Clothier...
...help thinking after duly empting fate that perhaps the management made a wise move when it introduced the unknown into the equation. The main attraction, while not a total loss, is decidedly not a howling success. It is not taken from a widely known book or from a spectacular stage production, and the players, though well known, are not stars of the greatest magnitude. This is distinctly bad from the advertising point of view. The publicity manager being a man of some circumspection probably thought so too Hence the little experiment as to the exact truth contained in Barnum...
...England tennis is concerned, both men were entirely unknown when they started in the competition Saturday. The New Yorkers won four straight games only to be complied to play against each other in the semifinals. Shields, who is a champion in his own right, lost only to his team-mate. He holds the National Outdoor and Indoor Boys' Singles Championships...
...waiting in a family that possessed a copy of the so-called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication as we know it was unknown in 1000 A. D., even in Japan. The earliest Genji texts are a series of handwritten rolls prepared for great families; the first printed edition dates to 1650, of which the British Museum has a copy. Numerous succeeding editions have appeared, for Genji occupies a place among Japanese classics...
...project has a larger purpose--that of broadening the minds of the students, not only by way of facts learned and information gathered in the many countries visited, but through personal contacts with individuals, observation of peoples and forms of life hitherto strange and unknown to them. Such an experience can scarcely fail to enrich the minds of those taking part in it, at the same time creating new interes's for them and producing a truer perspective on their own lives and the country to which they will return. The difference is more one of attitude rather than places...