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Word: unknowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing a team that is as yet an unknown quantity, the Bunnies could not push over a single counter against the strong Dunster line, and for three quarters the game was a see-saw, ding dong affair, with neither side really coming close. Sole exception was the first period goal line stand by the Funsters after an interception deep in their territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEPHANTS WIN 7-0; DUNSTER GAINS TIE | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

...Reported the Berlin radio: The King's horse "shied for some unknown reason, then bolted. The King was thrown and his head hit a stone. He did not suffer brain concussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Hunger | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...August 1941, the St. Roch and her crew nosed their indomitable way from Cambridge Bay into the unknown water wasteland of Pasley Bay. Dropping anchor in a storm to save themselves from reefs, they were caught for eleven months when open water turned suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: In Line of Duty | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...available air and sea forces are searching for him and his crew, the number unknown here, but officials said privately the outcome looked "pretty hopeless...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire-- | 10/24/1942 | See Source »

Against Army, Coach Dick Harlow is fielding the heaviest line he can muster and a backfield that is more or less an unknown quantity, since it is subject to so many drastic changes...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Potent Army Menaces Revamped Crimson; 3800 to Parade in Pre-Game Spectacle | 10/24/1942 | See Source »

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