Search Details

Word: unknowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...trophy was given to the Topiarian Club in 1912 by an unknown donor and is competed for annually. The winner has his name inscribed on the trophy, of which he has custody until the next competition. An exhibition of the competition drawings will be held in the Library of the School of Landscape Architecture from January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. J. WALKER WINNER OF TOPIARIAN CLUB TROPHY | 1/20/1920 | See Source »

...trophy is a cup given in the spring of 1912 by an unknown donor. The contest, which is the ninth since its starting, was for a time held semi-yearly and was omitted during the war. It was last won in 1917 by Hadden Alexander M. L. A. '17. Two well-known architects who were the winners of this trophy are H. L. Whitney '10, who won the cup in 1912, now city planning investigator to the Boston City Planning Board, and Howard Norton '13, the victor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOPIARIAN CONTEST THIS WEEK | 1/6/1920 | See Source »

...content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names are and over will be unknown to fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S TRIUMPHS IN ASTRONOMY. | 12/5/1919 | See Source »

...been launched successfully again and under difficulties which it is easy to underestimate. Coach Fisher himself was called upon at the eleventh hour last spring to take over Mr. Haughton's position as held coach. He was confronted with a vast squad in September, men for the most part unknown and untried in college football. That he and Captain Murray were able to develop the mature football displayed by Harvard in Saturday's game is a truly remarkable feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT ELSE MATTER? | 11/24/1919 | See Source »

...entirely mistaken notion that the Czecho-Slovaks are an uncultured and barbarian race. As a matter of fact illiteracy is practically unknown in my country, and the American Commissioner of Immigration at Washington in his official bulletin states that of all the races entering this country the Czecho-Slovaks have the lowest percentage of illiteracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOHEMIAN SAVANT WELCOMED | 11/8/1919 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Next | Last