Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orators realized it too. Remarkably little was said about the good opinion of the corner drugstore. Remarkably much was said about the unknown corner of unknown streets in a foreign land, where unknown people would read their papers...
Some rhymester, unknown to me, got a 35-year drop on Ogden Nash (who lately jingled the list of U.S. Presidents-TIME, June 14). We eighth-graders in San Francisco's Madison Grammar School were obliged to chant in unison...
...world. He was the living proof of its power to rise above defeat, of its courage, its humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the figures on aircraft, combat divisions, tanks, factories and naval vessels...
Hiding in the Limelight. Yet that was the error made by much of the British public in the years before Churchill became a member of the war cabinet. The paradox was that he remained in part unknown despite all his own writing, all his years of public service and all that had been written about him. He hid in the limelight. His secret weapon was that everyone thought he knew all about...
...UNKNOWN EX-PRESIDENT: A PORTRAIT OF HERBERT HOOVER (340 pp.)- Eugene Lyons-Doubleday...