Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight months later, at the expiration of the gubernatorial term, Earl was out of the statehouse. The reformers, led by an unknown young attorney named "Sad Sam" Jones, were in at last. Sam Jones streamlined the government, set up civil service, and spoke of getting payrolls and industry for the state...
...whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...
...from California was only 17, and almost unknown. But last week in Wembley Stadium, husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days' grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still gangling and ill-coordinated, he had proved his right to be classed with such all-round athletes as Carlisle's Jim Thorpe and West Point's Glenn Davis...
Though artificial conception through extramarital donorship, reported the commission, "would appear to avoid the worst part of adultery-the personal betrayal of the spouse . . . the part of the unknown donor must seem an unlawful intrusion...
There is no known design that will do all these things and still be a useful airplane. Wings that are efficient below Mach i do not serve above it. The behavior of an airframe in the transonic region is still a frightening unknown. But designers are working hard and hopefully. They are sure that by the time they have the proper airframe, they will have engines with plenty of power for the job. Engine men predict confidently that turbojet engines will work efficiently at least as high as Mach 1.5 (1,145 m.p.h...