Word: incognita
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...like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue "the most beautiful woman in the world...
After the Soviet ship Pobeda sailed from Italy with some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina-a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation...
...Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti and observe the transit of Venus "over the disk of the sun"; 2) he was to search out "Terra Australis Incognita," a vast body of land presumed to extend westward from the tip of South America because it was theoretically necessary to counteract the weight of the Northern Hemisphere and so keep the world on an even keel. French explorers like Bougainville were looking for the same territory, and the idea...
...years passed, the parents of the thousands of children who devoured her books took it for granted that Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...
...honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...