Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Similar practices are not unknown in the U.S. In 1863, Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
...reserve. The other argument says that there is a tremendous difference between oil under the ground and oil ready for use. This difference lies in exploration of oil deposits and actual drilling to determine where the producing wells are. National defense, therefore, requires the complete development of this vast, unknown oil area as soon as possible...
...disruption of the industry in a transition period and a fear of political juggling of oil on the national seene. Considering the huge sums that have been invested in oil gambling, it is not surprising that business favors the conditions under which they made the gamble to an unknown future...
...Until Koerner's paintings were first exhibited in Berlin (TIME, April 28, 1947), his work was virtually unknown...
Scientists know that the nonvolatile compounds in food are tasted; the volatile ones are both tasted and smelled. But why they taste or smell the way they do is still unknown. The chemical characteristics of a compound may have little to do with its taste. Cane sugar (sucrose) contains only carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, but it tastes much like saccharin, whose quite different molecule has nitrogen and sulphur atoms...