Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of last year's sweeping victory, the Crimson forces will be favored today. But due to the unknown quantity of both teams, Coach Mikkola stated last night that anything is likely to happen...
...California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...
...flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun's unknown war dead...
Although tradition has it that the City Slicker looks to the farmer for his pickings, he has not been completely unknown to the college man either. Relatively new to the matters of budgeting and shopping, Freshmen and their immediate elders are often less likely than more experienced men-of-the-world to spot an exorbitant price, with the result that prices frequently vary inversely as the distance to the nearest college community. It is in defense against this situation that the Student Council has organized a "Consumers' Aid Bureau," with representatives in each House and dormitory, to keep...
...knocking off the Elephants on Thursday. With 10 of last year's regulars back in the fold, the Ramblers are further strengthened by the addition of a few mighty-capable Sophs and by Dick Loomis, last fall's all-House center, who transferred from Winthrop. Eliot remains an unknown power, but it is doubtful if the Elephants can master enough push to topple the Ramblers, even though they boast of a "mystery" back...