Word: clues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mathematical basis that the seven syllables of the scale, plus a Spatari-added Bo, may be arranged into no less than 1,000,000 pronounceable combinations. These combinations are used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...
...general situation. In my opinion, President Conant could quite properly have touched on this matter in his letter referred to above, since it involves all the essential elements of the difficult problem of academic appointment and tenure. At least, by so doing, he would have given an important clue to his thinking on that problem...
...clue to Nazi restraint was found in the return to Danzig, after more than two months absence, of League of Nations High Commissioner, Professor Karl J. Burckhardt, whom Adolf Hitler recently described as "a man of extraordinary tact." Official explanation of the Commissioner's return was that he was to undertake a survey of the Danzig situation for the League. The Poles greeted his arrival as a reassertion of League authority. Nazi newspapers, cued by suggestions in the French and British press that "Danzig is not worth a war," thought they knew better, and hailed tactful Professor Burckhardt...
...fair business in any year to roll up what most of the U. S. regards as a boom year's profits. With increased volume G. M.'s quarter's earnings ($53,178.000) amounted to 14.4% of sales, compared to 3.3% a year ago. This was a clue to other earnings, for when G. M. earns only 3.3% on sales, the rest of U. S. business is usually in the red, but when it earns 14.4%, other earnings are likely to be fair...
...Otto Hahn, 60, of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and his coworker, F. Strassmann, had bombarded uranium with neutrons. In the products of bombardment they found something which seemed to be atoms of barium. This barium was the clue to something terrific. For the huge uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, weighs 238 units.* The barium atom weighs 137 units. Since the barium could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy...