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“... Casimir Funk’s 1912 hypothesis on vitamins), and the chemical composition of Swiss soil was unknown. Despite this, almost everything Hunziker argued turned out to be true.Iodine was discovered in 1811, and by the time Hunziker gave his speech to the Zurichsee Doctors’ Society, it was used in a bewildering variety of treatments, from cough medicines to ...”

“... TV through the night and becomes increasingly obsessed with his favourite show, Parts Unknown, hosted by the chef Anthony Bourdain. He sensed he had found another kindred spirit. ‘I felt a sense of recognition in this guy wandering around the world, trying to find some temporary connection with other human beings living within their own ...”

“... and did not deserve to survive. ‘We have to abdicate,’ he continued, ‘and the Great Unknown, he or it, lurking behind Fate, will one day repeat such an experiment with another race.’ In an extraordinary gesture of radical self-abnegation – not the type of gesture for which he is best known – Freud was willing to sacrifice humanity, as we ...”

“... the Ballyshannon Herald in 1843 that ‘“IT” is the onely propper pronoun to be applied to an unknown correspondent – the name being neither fish, flesh, nor fowl.’) Fully authorised by the general etymon or not, few have been taken with the idea of allowing ‘it’ to stand in for humans, at least adult ones. ‘It’ was once commonly used for ...”

“... bit simplistic that faith as stated, no doubt. The point is that the very idea of such a faith is unknown on Andromeda, and the ending for Peter Sinclair in ‘real life’, as distinct from wargames, is downbeat enough: diagnosis of an inoperable cancer. The Failure of the Avant-Garde, a splendid subject, will be left unwritten. Peter Sinclair is a Forties ...”

“... Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the squat brick lodge of the Sons of Knute, the statue to the Unknown Norwegian. It is also quite easy to conjure something of the unyielding ferocity of the seasons in the Midwest, the winter which lasts eight months with torrents of mud to follow, and the heat of summer, in which the hostile land relents and its stern ...”

“... much revered by the younger generation in his native Poland, but until very recently, quite unknown in the West. As every Polish schoolboy knows and every German one has been told – and as we’ve now been reminded by Günter Grass’s eyewitness account of the local schoolboys eagerly collecting shrapnel – the cruiser Schleswig-Holstein began ...”

“... with shudders’. He does not ape the older performers in this field, but instead uses procedures unknown before the present century. He has himself commented, with what in our day must count as shamelessness: ‘The versifier has one gift, that of versifying; and that gift, the only one he has, he lays before the ...”

“... the 1905 Revolution had driven the Party into exile or underground, where they remained, largely unknown, until 1917. The trade unions themselves were unstable organisations, incorporating only a small section of the skilled workforce. As for the majority of workers, they read the boulevard press with its gaudy and bawdy stories, rather than the dull and ...”

“... among the eighty thousand-odd forced labourers, and the neighbouring population, is still unknown. Medvedev adds that Kurchatov could draft detainees from a special prison to work inside the reactor. The context of the Cold War, in its various phases, is well developed. Holloway writes that Stalin ‘used the Cold War to enhance repression at ...”

“... argument, familiar from its use in later times, that homosexuality was contrary to nature was not unknown; and the myth which told that Laius, father of Oedipus, was the initiator of homosexuality, and that his misfortunes and those of his descendants were its consequences, cannot be without significance. Foucault would have had a better sense of this ...”

“... is the subtitle. A Butterfly Under a Stone by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She and her sisters, unknown to her father, brothers and later, her husband, befriended a poor girl dying of tuberculosis in ‘The Rookeries’, which were, after all, not a mile from their house. This fine and compassionate novel was the result.Unfortunately these novels and a ...”

“... Fifties, and and at vast cost. Complicated new lines in surgery still lay in the future. If the unknown, but in fact moderate, cost of the service was a problem in the Forties, it is horrific to think what sort of hurdle this would have made twenty years later. How relevant today are the lessons of this story? The reader has to raise as well as answer this ...”

“... trinity of Malthusian positive checks (war, famine and disease) has been joined, by a fourth, unknown to the dismal parson: eco-disaster. Should we therefore conclude that civilisation does not merely bring its own special diseases and discontents but is inherently pathogenic? Here, as Cohen sensibly concludes, the evidence is harder to assess. There ...”

“... known after her initial sortie, by the Tsar at least, to be a woman, although she insisted she was unknown to others, and Isabelle Eberhardt, another Russian from Geneva, who dressed in male (and sometimes female) Arab clothes and involved herself in the politics and religion of North Africa. Durova was steeped in Gothic and sentimental literature, seeing ...”