Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Instruction. The cops found the house unrobbed and untouched, and no sure clue as to how the housebreaker had come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...
...Artemis, the diggers got down to the river bed without finding anything Lydian. In other promising spots they found only worthless Roman or Christian remains, and a few Lydian potsherds. But when they attacked the foundations of a large Roman-Byzantine structure called "Building B," they found a promising clue: a great marble block with an inscription telling that the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (A.D. 130-169) had passed that way and given a sum of money to the gymnasium, which was probably a kind of school. This suggested that Building B might be the gymnasium mentioned...
...opening night at the Edinburgh Festival last week, the author (who will be 70 this month) sat in the audience holding hands with his 31-year-old wife, his former secretary whom he married a year and a half ago. That scene offered a clue to the proceedings onstage. More than any of his previous plays, or most of his poems, T. S. Eliot's The Elder Statesman extols love. Compared to The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk-intellectual avocados spiky with Greek myths and Christian mysticism-Eliot's latest seems as simple as the peach that...
Freehof, offers a clue to the general religious situation. "People should be concerned with their immortality and the salvation of their souls in eternity, but the books do not show it ... They deal with the questions of how to live, how to be happy, how to face the world. The spiritual hunger of our day is almost entirely this-worldly. People want help from religion in the present problems, spiritual and ethical, of their daily life. This tendency to be noncreedal and practical is precisely liberalism. There is an unintended but unmistakable liberalism in the popular religious books...
...Merseyside areas (centered at Liverpool) and clear-aired North Wales. Among nonsmokers the hazard of smoggy air was clear: 2.3 times as much lung cancer in smoke-palled belts as in cleaner areas. But to the identity of the cancer-causing substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack a day) and nonsmokers. But among men who smoked more than a pack a day, the death rate rose, paradoxically, far faster in rural, smog-free areas. Explanation? Dr. Stocks had none...