Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compelling force will be individuality." Yet Harvard, where the system has had a trial of years, is still wondering where to find the "initial interest." Perhaps the small difference in Princeton's scheme and the fact that it is not applied to all departments here, are the desired clue. Perhaps the University fails to appreciate what it has . . . Or perhaps Princeton five years from now will be less sanguine...
...Clue of the New Pin" upholds the best English traditions of detectives, mystery, and murder, and should in our estimation, on the basis of merit alone, out sell all the recent writing of E. Philips Oppenheim...
...that such a division will make mighty small wages for them will merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this surface of madness, as the critic of The New York Times pointed out last Sunday, there must be certain subtleties of method. Mr. Stransky as conductor seems to give the clue. This musician recently re-signed or was "forced" out of the conductorship of the Philharmonic -both explanations were given. The new movement seems at bottom a process of providing him with an orchestra. Mr. Stransky is a persuasive personality and has a devoted following among the highly placed. There...
...course it is to be expected that the feminist leaders will soon be on Mrs. Mahoney's trail. They will want the clue to her methods of subduing the native tribesmen; they will probably ask her to lead campaigns of conquest all over the world. Her mining successes have provided her with funds for a great crusade; her versatility has been proved; and if her leadership can be enlisted, their causes is assured of victory, Mr. Shaw and the Wyf of Bathe will be vindicated, and the Superman will have...
...orbit 186,000,000 miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line, the shift in a stars position is so slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found to be about 60,000,000,000,000 miles, or so far away that the light from...