Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measuring the money's worth offered by the various manufacturers. There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...
...hundreds of brokers resuming the hawking of securities about the 29 posts of the floor. No active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical. But the penalty was heavy disgrace. He had vanished from his hotel, leaving no clue, only a note disposing of a nebulous estate in favor of his sister and brother; had written in a letter "in case anything should happen to me through accident or otherwise. . . ." Wall Street veterans shook their heads. It was not the first time a ruined broker had thus prepared...
Pictures of girls in broad brimmed hats and students sauntering through the Yard arrayed in cut-always and stove pipe hats have finally furnished a clue to the age of the china plate fragments discovered Friday afternoon in the steard pipe ditch being constructed near University Hall. More than a bushed of broken 'ups, plates, and bowls were taken out of this mine of ancient University plate accidentaly unearthed by the operations of a steam shoved. The plate having been rescued from eternal oblivion by the enthusiastic and opportune intervention of President Lowell has been carefully scrutinized by Assistant Professor...
...gossip and what is historical fact, for his voluminous quotation of Napoleon's words is from many sources, varying in authenticity from soberest records to the completely apocryphal. Where Napoleon fails to leave words of moment on a weighty occasion, Ludwig soliloquizes for him. These is scarcely a clue to the authority for a single passage, though occasionally Bourienne is mentioned. There is not even a modest bibliographical list...
...have been for lack of opponents that Oxford took this novel and hitherto unattempted step. How long it would have been before an American institution would have done the same is impossible to estimate, but the frequency or infrequency with which the practice is repented will give a clue...