Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially to the ears of any who may be unfortunate enough to reside in that section of the Gold Coast Bob Lampoon, when interviewed at a late hour last night, declared that a bird in the hand was not always worth two in the bush. There might be some clue there...
Austerlitz Gives Clue...
Once Lewis had run down the clue that had been eluding him, he quickly saw the application of this military defense to his own problem. In both cases, a powerful blow was directed at the centre of the line, which could hardly be withstood by ordinary methods of defense. To substitute ends and tackles of a football team on the defensive for Napoleon's cavalry was a natural step, and the centre could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French centre was strengthened by reserves...
...thinking about his past day's business. He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor. He pored through the telephone book, telephoned the police, rushed to a series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night thoughts, the druggist had remembered having put quarter-grains...
...alignment will result in anything spectacular, observers will have to be satisfied with wondering at the alignment itself. Are England and Italy contemplating commercial collaboration? Is Mussolini's imperial ambition leading him to league with an empire? On the other hand, what now brings France and Germany together.? The clue here is significant. Germany has railroads to sell for credit in reparations. France has willing friends to bid for these, friends who foresee French preeminence in Germany's richest industrial regions whence must come coal for French iron works in Lorraine...