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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power had grown faster than any rise in Hitler's power between 1933 and 1939. The Communists were not the X in the equation. Their intention to rule the world had been proclaimed a thousand times, and their strength under various circumstances could be fairly accurately forecast. The unknown quantity was the Western world. How seriously would the West try to resist the Communist expansion? How ably would it go about that resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chances of World War III | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...some 600 years ago, an unknown English mystic began writing a little book addressed to a young man who planned to devote his life to the contemplative worship of God. It is still one of the great manuals of the devotional life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: With Longing Love | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Yardling and Jayvee hockey squads will face unknown quantities at the Arena today, when they wind up their seasons against the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51, Jayvee Sixes Face Blue Today | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...Veterans Office staff, meanwhile, continued to comb its thousands of file cases in hopes of uncovering a conclusive lead. Although Monro holds several definite theories on the personality and background of the unknown crook who has used the name "Herbert R. Gross" hundreds of these files have been re-scrutinized thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Office Checks Book Swindling Clues | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Luter, whose band plays for free drinks in smoky student hangouts in Paris' Latin Quarter, was the prize find of French Jazz Pedant Hugues (Le Jazz Hot) Panassie, who helped organize the festival. Panassié had been denounced in angry manifestoes for picking an unknown like Claude Luter to represent French jazz. Uninvited French big-timers like Violinist Stephane Grappelly (Quintette de Hot Club de France), after popping off in the Communist press, grumpily consented to appear at the festival's closing session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Jumps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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