Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners his personal experiences. Said he: "There will be np politics. ... I never have been able to work up a belligerent feeling. Just as I am about to feel belligerent about some country, I meet some nice fellow from it and lose all my belligerency." To this small clue as to his state of mind, Wodehouse added another: "Naturally I hope the war is over soon, but if I am able to continue my work I will be satisfied." He wondered whether his world was ended, evinced no convictions or aspirations about the world to come...
...listeners knew where the broadcast was coming from. Even studio technicians of Washington's WOL were in the dark. The program was being piped into the station by telephone, but the control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from...
...corner of Alaska nearest Siberia was probably man's first threshold to the Western Hemisphere. So for years archeologists have dug there for a clue to America's prehistoric past. Until last year, all the finds were obviously Eskimo. Then Anthropologists Froelich G. Rainey of the University of Alaska and two collaborators struck the remains of a town, of inciedible size and mysterious culture. Last week in Natural History Professor Rainey, still somewhat amazed, described this lost Arctic city...
...London lay almost helpless under Nazi air attacks by night, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding predicted with mysterious confidence, "Night bombing will be greatly reduced by spring." Since then repeated reports have come from England of Nazi raiders brought down in full darkness. Last week a clue to this amazing prediction and promise of fulfillment was provided by the U. S. Patent Office...
Comparative scoring against other teams doesn't give much of a clue to the six's chance of handing Yale the short end, for in its tilts with Princeton and Mount St. Charles, both rivals managed to win by an equal number of goals...