Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attack is being featured in the daily workouts, since the Crimson defense is felt to be satisfactorily strong. The type of the new plays remains unknown, however, shrouded in the secrecy which necessarily attends such early season experiments. Nightly meetings during the past fortnight between Major Daly. Coach Leary, and Coach Fisher have been chiefly occupied with the offense...
After lunch, the King drove up the Champs Élysées, lined with thousands of people who cheered lustily and shouted Vive Georges Cinq, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which lies under the Arc de Triomphe...
...EAMES-ERSKINE CASE ?A. Fielding? Knotf ($2.00). An unknown man is found dead from an overdose of morphine, locked (from the inside) in the wardrobe of a hotel room in London. There is a balcony before the room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds...
From Russia, came reports: 1) Of an unknown seal of King Artaxerxes (I or III) of Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...
...tale is based on the Old Testament story of the most famous fratricide. The poet, however, takes a modern point of view, represents Cain as the first thinker. Lucifer is his advisory board; he objects to his brother's sacrificing unoffending animals to his unknown God. Abel is a terribly earnest young man who certainly should have been killed. The tale is declamatory and undramatic. The acting is fair...