Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knowing readers spotted a clue to the attack in Izvestia's inclusion of Poland among the countries supposedly dissatisfied with Vatican policy. The Russians' clear meaning was: while we are arranging a "suitable" postwar Government for Poland, will Catholics who share our distrust of clericalism please urge the Vatican not to use its enormous influence with Polish Catholics against...
...clue to a possible cause of arthritis was given last week in the Journal of the A.M.A. Dr. Hans Selye and coworkers of Montreal have found that rats get the disease if they get an overdose of desoxy-corticosterone acetate, a synthetic adrenal hormone. Dr. Selye concludes that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...Clue of the Crowded Commas. Next day belonged to Sparks and "The Clue of the Crowded Commas." "The Hopkins Letter" and letters allegedly written by Briggs turned out to share a typescript peculiarity: there was no space between the commas and the first letters of the words immediately following. Sparks popped up in the Senate Press Gallery, handed reporters a 20-page statement about his relations with Briggs, and gave an interview. He had already been before the grand jury. He admitted that all he had ever had in the way of proof of "The Hopkins Letter's" authenticity...
...With this fateful possibility before them, the returning members looked to their shrewd Prime Minister for some clue to his election strategy. They knew that they might find the key to it in Parliament, where he has sat for 28 years. A cold personality to the average voter, Mr. King takes on more color on the front bench, becomes a calculating wielder of the oratorical stiletto...
...Sups with the Devil. But the proclamation was something more than propaganda: it was a clue to Hitler's strength even in despair, a testimony to his sense of oneness with the German people (always excepting those whom he has confined, abused, murdered). Its awkward rationalizations might seem absurd to free Britons and Americans; they did not seem absurd to Germans who remembered, with Adolf Hitler, the penalties of defeat in World War I, and who now suffered the agonies of defeat in the skies...