Word: clue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial quackery by the News had its ostensible explanation. Death, soon after it had come to the Queen, leveled, after long debauch, an unfortunate and abandoned creature whose story the editors had selected as the feature for an inside spread. Under the obnoxious headline appeared, in tiny type, the clue: Story on page three
...miniature device resembling a one-cylinder combustion engine. Into the cylinder was put a mixture of various kinds of carbonaceous dust-grain, sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked, by the spontaneous combustion of dust accumulated in the shaft. His major...
Diplomacy: "The dispatches of these times [Bismarck's] are full of secret signals and ciphers, the clue to which has been lost in subsequent times, and not a few of them missed fire even in their own time because their meaning was so elaborately concealed that nobody could discover...
...letter I told you about an eccentric group of Satellites here at Dravrah whose sufficient reason for embracing every new doctrine that comes along is simply "Why not?" Since that disappointing experience I have been in the midst of a mad whirl that has distracted me without giving any clue to the riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute count...
...clue's on the string...