Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury's verdict: ''To the best of our belief . . . [the rail] was misplaced by a person or persons unknown...
...miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...
...Faces. Unknown in pre-war Spain, but conspicuous all over the country last week, were the amiable Italian features of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who wound up his visit as the anniversary celebration began. Exhilarated after eight days of triumphal speechmaking, tours to battlefields, official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home...
...arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored to be involved in an undescribed government inquiry...
...many golf tournaments an unknown from nowhere steals the show. In last week's performance, however, the headliners hogged the spotlight from beginning to end. When the field of 120 (including Shute) narrowed down to two, the survivors of the six-day elimination matches were Byron Nelson and Henry Picard, the two top-ranking pros in the U. S. (on the basis of their scores in the circuit of P.G.A. tournaments this year...