Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whereabouts unknown for nearly two weeks, the Student Council Report on undergraduate activities, scheduled for release early this term, turned up this week in Daytona Beach, Florida. Daniel P. S. Paul '46, graduating Student Council member, is still tabulating the questionnaires which were distributed in June to determine the extent of undergraduate participation in student organizations, and the report will probably not be ready until Fall...
...from the ocean floor. It was his idea to utilize the temperature differential be tween this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube and retrieved at the surface, the Havana Academy of Science named it for him: Benthocometes-Claude...
...familiar "National Front" pattern of other countries in Russia's sphere. Czech labor unions, professional workers and technicians, farmers, and intellectuals were to be united in centrally controlled organizations allied with the "National Bloc." If liberation was bringing freedom to the Czechs, it was of a kind unknown to them before the old freedom collapsed...
...Control Council is supposed to coordinate all four administrations and make this quadruped walk like a man. But, according to a previously unknown provision, the Council can do nothing unless its decision is unanimous. Lacking unanimity, the four powers may proceed independently in their individual zones. By withholding agreement, any member power could free itself to pursue its own policies & purposes in its zone...
Almost all the men were heading home for 30-day furloughs. After that, they were headed for the unknown: perhaps to more fighting in the Pacific, perhaps-for a lucky few-duty in the U.S. But for some-those who were due for discharge under the Army point system-life would become suddenly very different. What did they face? For many the changeover would be drastic. The press had been full of warnings and reports of some trouble...