Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...
...visiting experts claim that the plant food, a secret Davey formula, will force the grass to blossom with an effulgence unseen in recent years...
...means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...nine old gentlemen on the bench began to ask questions with the amused detachment of sages from the moon. To begin with, they wanted to know all about the chicken business. Justice Sutherland was told that in "straight killing" the customer buys the contents of a crate sight unseen. If a customer wants a half crate, "you just break the box in half...
Furthermore, there is no conflict between his thesis and ours. Psychological in appeal, the strike aims to make students aware of the danger of inaction and to unite youth in determination to avert the next war. By a "dramatic" appeal, can the pressure of indifference and unseen military propaganda best be overcome...