Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Geologist Lawrence M. Gould and Surveyor John S. O'Brien find rocks and fossils giving a clue to the nature of life on Antarctica before the age of ice commenced...
...commission on her earnings before speeding her to another city. This, as a matter of fact, is the exact "racket" with which the National Surety Co. last week charged an organized swindling ring, employing 40 girls, operating in many a U. S. city. Recent arrests in Philadelphia provided the clue. Alarmed by 140,000 claims from stores in two years, the National Surety Co. pressed the investigation...
...coming from a single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown twinning among echinoderms to be caused by retardation of development in the egg. Whether this is true of the human ovum remains to be proved. What is true is that identical twins are the closest approximation to different human beings with exactly the same...
...resourceful Hoover, whose conclusions are essentially a one-man job, and whose apparent concentration on the task immediately in hand gives no clue to the fact that he is at last equally interested in six other matters at the same moment--a man whose career is a successful rebuttal of the adage that it is a mistake to have too many irons in the fire...
...occurred, they sleepily made up their minds that no one who did not really want to drown would have chosen such a time for submergence. They discovered a photograph of a man, across which was scribbled an illegible endearment, in Mlle. Roseray's handbag; but no clue was offered when they perceived that the image was that of the proprietor of her night club. The Lexington Avenue Hospital refused to inform them as to whether Mlle. Roseray would recover, or how soon. These details the reporters were compelled to invent...