Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes sense on any subject (New Dealers would except TVA). Mr. Willkie, 48, no Tory, is brilliant, countrified, adept in controversy and, to many minds, the best domestic brain on politico-economics. He has two serious handicaps-he is associated in the public mind with utilities; he is unknown politically west of the Mississippi...
Three years ago Professor Harry Goldblatt of Western Reserve announced that a large proportion of hypertension is caused by a clogging of the kidneys. When he clamped the kidney arteries of dogs and cut off their blood supply, an unknown "pressor substance" was produced which irritated the adrenal glands, capping the kidneys; they in turn produced constriction of the arterioles throughout the body...
Contrary to reports published in last evening's Record, Brody is not ailing with an "unknown malady." His collapsed lung is a common ailment. Dr. Rock said for there are six or eight cases of it a year at the infirmary. Neither was it caused, as was implied in last night's report, by Brody's working in a steel mill, since many are stricken who have had no connection with such strenuous work...
Frederick Douglass. Greatest killer of both Negroes and whites is heart disease. But while tuberculosis has dropped to seventh place among whites, it still holds second among Negroes, killing over 15,000 every year. Like syphilis, the "white plague" is a white man's disease, was unknown in Africa. Some authorities hold that the Negro is more susceptible to tuberculosis than the white man because he has been exposed to the tubercle bacillus for only three or four generations, has not yet developed the white man's age-old resistance. But latest research shows that prime cause...
Careers as well as martyrs were made that Easter Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...