Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds of years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker...
Everybody these days seems to be concentrating on the "little man." Swimming has its little man too--he is the unsung plugger who may be depended upon the take second or third place in a meet. Too often, the crowd at a swimming meet is too anxious to applaud the brilliant winner of first place; the man who tracks a record every week. But actually, many of the greatest thrills during an aquatic evening are provided by the second and third place men fighting it out for the unheralded honors...
...climax the ice cream guzzling championship disputed in Harvard by David H. Mitchell '41 and Homer D. Peabody '41 and other unsung would-be heroes, the Conco Engineering Works of Mendota, III., has come forward with an offer of a one gallon 'Dolly Madison" electric ice cream freezer to the final winner of the contest...
...failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly and dull, its tragedies without elevation, its achievements unsung. Poets have avoided its stories and businessmen themselves have not wanted to hear them. The reason, Miriam Beard believes, is that heroes in other fields have served some ideal larger than themselves, even if they served it badly, have had some goal that business, except in a few unselfish spirits...
...sport-light of fame. The pilots of the Army, Navy and commercial airlines, in making daily flights from city to city, year in and year out, have contributed invaluable service to the cause of American aviation, and their work is all the nobler because it is unheralded and unsung...