Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Wall was still an unknown quantity, but there were known factors...
...this ancient print, dated 1260 A.D." was engraved within 400 years of that date, I will cheerfully eat it. It looks as if TIME and the doughty admirals are more familiar with nautical than with personal armor. The print shows full suits of plate armor, unknown in England for more than 100 years after 1260, at least in the form shown. Besides which, the armor bears a distinct family resemblance to the type beloved of Victorian engravers, and seen nowhere on earth but in their limnings. Ten gets you a hundred that the print was engraved between...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...little brown man with the spinning wheel spun more & more frantically, pathetically, for he was old, and he knew with an urgency unknown to most of the politicians he dealt with that until the problem of India's unity and India's freedom was solved, the problem of peace and security for Asia and for the world could not be solved...
Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...