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...mass suffrage but also the century of mass suffering. Ordinary people died in the trenches, in a deadly influenza epidemic, went hungry in the Great Depression, brought Adolf Hitler to power and died in the death camps. The Person of the Century should be the common man, the unsung hero who encompasses all our strivings and failings, our successes and disasters, our greatness and pettiness. He is us. ALBERT GOMPERTS Antwerp...
...anything of note in the 20th century, you've been celebrated this year. But we've found a few who managed to go unheralded. These are folks whose inventions are used every day but whose names, unfairly, are not. Herewith, the last unsung heroes of the 1900s...
...three players are the unsung leaders of the team, the guys who will be lost in the long history of Harvard football. Not one of them is an Isaiah Kacyvenski or a Chris Menick--a player who set records and gained recognition. All of them will soon enter the real world where they can't play football on Saturday...
After two generations of women's studies, the pickings are getting slim. All the major and most of the minor figures, from Pandora to Paglia, have been covered. But the gender genie is out of the bottle, and locating yet another of history's unsung females is now a mainstream imperative...
...Long an unsung hero of the Harvard...