Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future greatness of England evidently depends upon her friendly relations with the colonies and with the two great powers of the non-European world. And it is in this larger arena of world-politics that unknown motives and unknown forces are going to work out within the next fifty years the leadership among the world powers. For several decades at least France has secured the leadership on the European continent, but the world rivalry for leadership is just looming ahead from out the uncertain future...
...newest civil war in China is on the point of breaking out. Once again Western eyes are drawn uncomprehending toward that land of vast numbers and unknown forces. And the multiplicity of explanations is in itself enlightening...
Last week two or three unknown undergraduates climbed the Lampson Lyceum tower and painted the lions and clock hands. The affair is being investigated and it is expected that the men will be punished in the near future...
...House of Lords recently behaved in a flippant manner heretofore unknown in that august body toward a bill to remove the responsibility of as man for his wife's actions. One "noble lord", says the news-dispatch, bewailed the fact that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable...
...scantily satisfy it. Certain of the undergraduates have their eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day", and wonder why their appetites are not so good as formerly. Charge accounts are unknown: there are too many students for the proprietors to take any risk...