Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghost-like Harvard graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...
Genius in Shirt Sleeves. Detroit has more than machinery, more than the manufacturing brains of Henry Ford's generation. The industry's front line is manned by a little battalion of unknown men in battered felt hats, sitting shirt-sleeved in cubbyhole factory offices, darting out among the machines, spitting tobacco juice, profanity and ideas. These are Detroit's production men, fresh up from the ranks, a trace of grease still under their stubby fingernails. They know machines as only men can who have handled them. They are the men who play by ear, with near-perfect...
Most of the "B" team are unknown quantities, since all of them, Bill Apthorp, Jim Gamble, and Dick Wood have done more recreational skiing than racing. Wood was on the Freshman team last year, and Apthorp ran for the Varsity...
After a month of practice, the Varsity lacrosse squad has begun to emerge from the "unknown quantity" stage and show indications of a better season than last year's bottom-heavy record would indicate as the usual lot of Crimson stickmen...
...last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically, all that remains of Josephus is his internationalism-the histories in which he labored to reconcile his race and the Romans...