Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five, but was robust and mischievous. One day, to his mother's amazement, little Earl's flailing arms stole some apples from a fruit stand. "It was the first time that my hand had ever done my bidding," he said. "My stolen apples gave me the clue, not followed up for years, that the secret of control for the muscularly handicapped lies in concentration on a purpose...
...about to be launched-possibly in a matter of a few days. The big question was where. The war, slowing to a lull in the Balkans and in Greece, bogging down in a seven-day sandstorm at Tobruch, flaming fitfully in the ragged weather over Britain, gave little clue. But the British, sure trouble was coming, thought they knew the answer (see below). Meanwhile the important military news of the week was the story of the battle of the Illustrious (see col. 2), an engagement which may possibly be a turning point in the war in the Mediterranean...
Nobody knows exactly why teeth decay. Dentists generally agree on one clue to the mystery: certain acid-forming bacteria, such as lactobacilli, grow on tooth enamel, ferment crumbs of sweet and starchy foods which lodge in tooth crevices. The acid thus formed dissolves calcium in the teeth, causes cavities...
...September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel was not on board. No note, no clue, no trace of his body was ever found...
Stubborn Turks. As Russia goes, so goes Turkey. Turkey would scarcely dare to stand alone. The surprising firmness of Turkey last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...