Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Problem. From London came a clue. Tomasz Arciszewski, ex-Premier of the London Government, announced solemnly: "The treasures in Canada are in safe hands. They will not be delivered up to the Warsaw Government for transportation to Moscow...
...Detroit's cosmopolitan Petoskey section, hoodlums last week systematically scarred the windows of 41 kosher butcher shops with acid. Apparently well-organized, the vandals carried specially insulated buckets, drove cars with license plates covered. Police had no clue as to their identity...
...fact that they "scuffle more" than girls had something to do with it. By shrewd detective work, an altogether different explanation was found: boys get ringworm in barbershops. The P.H.S. men noticed that 65% of the boys' scalp infections were in the "clipper area." Following up the clue, they learned that, sure enough, barbers' clippers (also combs, brushes and scissors) in Hagerstown barbershops were heavily infected...
...Wallace did not know why a halfway meeting with Marxist Russia has proved impossible, the reaction of his audience might have given him a clue. Communists hissed every criticism of Russia. Obviously taken aback, he flinched. Once he looked up from his text and said imploringly: "I realize that the danger of war is much less from Communism than it is from imperialism." He was apparently frightened out of using at least one phrase in his prepared text-a reference to "native Communists faithfully following every twist and turn in the Moscow party line." He was also going...
...clue to the disease's source was found not in the Army but in a youngsters' camp in the Pocono Mountains, where two summers ago 350 of the 572 campers came down with jaundice. Army doctors promptly seized on a made-to-order opportunity to investigate, eventually traced the infection to a camp well into which cesspools drained. With the help of conscienious objectors, who volunteered to drink from the well, doctors established that the disease was caused by an invisible organism, probably a virus, in the water...