Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot 53 ft., 1/4 in. Saturday, placing second among collegians, and heaved the 35 lb. weight an impressive 59 ft., 1 1/2 in. Jay Mahaney, who pole vaulted 13 ft., 6 in. against Army but didn't compete in either meet last week, is still somewhat of an unknown quantity...
...raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message in an unknown language (jumboed up by Mumbo)-in the orchard behind the school. As snippety schoolgirls, they wondered what posterity would make...
...cause of lung cancer is still unknown, but there is clinical evidence linking cancer with foreign matter in the respiratory system. Cilia are thin hairs that prevent such particles from lodging in the tract. The charcoal granules in the compartmentalised Lark filter adsorb such gases as hydrogen, cyanide, formaldehyde, acrolein, and ammonia, which interfere with this process...
...never have enough in stock, merely take a customer's deposit and bury him in an avalanche of form letters until he tires of trying to retrieve his payment. Some have offered a come-on of ten boxes of Tide detergent for $1.97; what often arrives is an unknown soap brand and an additional unrequested item with a C.O.D. bill...
Marriage Revealed. Doris Duke, 51, "the richest girl in the world"; and Joseph Armand Castro, 36, nightclub piano player; she for the third time; in Providence on July 6, 1956, and again (for reasons unknown) in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 1960, a union long rumored but never confirmed by either before Castro sued for divorce in Los Angeles last week, demanding $5,000-a-month alimony...