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Word: clue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of all U.S. deaths. Doctors have long considered it one of the most dangerous diseases of 20th Century civilization, and one of the least understood. They may have to modify the latter belief, for a group of British scientists have turned up what looks like a solid clue to the disease. Their discovery: high blood pressure seems to be due to a "short-circuiting" of blood circulation in the kidneys, caused by too much nervous excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exciting Discovery | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Some Pastry. Most of the 28 guests assembled among the roses in the Federal Trade Commission's private dining room in Washington had no idea why they were there. The chocolate-covered cupcakes on the sideboard gave some of them a clue: they were iced in white with the initials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Fog | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed plot, which has not an irrelevant word or clue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/27/1947 | See Source »

...dropped out to cool off with champagne. The rest raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...William E. Coney of Miami, wartime pilot of the Navy's famed flying boat Mars and one of Eastern's best. Two other bodies were easily identified-a headless mother who still pressed her headless child against her breast. But in most cases the only sure identifying clue was to be found in dental work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smoke in Maryland | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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