Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airdrome runways are built by coolie-hand. At the main base three Americans direct thousands of Chinese laborers in the constant process of reconstruction and repair. Asphalt and concrete runways are practically unknown; most of the strips are paved with mud, hand-poured and bound with crushed rock. On a very few fields the Fourteenth has strips of the Chinese version of asphalt, made of tung oil, resin, sand and hand-chipped rock...
...watched the bearers bring in a boy who groaned as they carried him to the hospital gates and who, by the time they stopped to examine him, was dead. He was unknown; there was nothing on his clothing nor anyone with him to identify...
Coach Floyd Stahl will bring an unknown and untried five onto the floor of the Indoor Athletic gymnasium tomorrow night at 8:45 o'clock to test a veteran Tufts team. A preliminary, Junior, Varsity game will start at 7:30 o'clock...
...went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
There was a cupboard in the room whose unknown contents terrified Peter more than the blows. When he said: "I have nothing to confess," they opened its doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused...