Word: clues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovery of neatly fielded coat on the Long fellow bridge early Sunday morning, November 14 had been the original clue to Burgess' unaccounted for absence, and police attached a great deal of importance to this fact. It was realized that if a fight had taken place, the coat would not have been left in such an orderly state...
...prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust Co., in Newark. Last fortnight Feigenspan thought they had received the sure winner in this category: Russell C. Speck's 25½ ouncer, caught off Monnosquan, N. J. The Trust Co. sent the tuna...
...ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter...
...clue or information which would "definitely clear up" the mid-Pacific disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred J. Noonan (TIME. July 12 et seq.), her husband George Palmer Putnam posted a reward with the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau. Amount...
...early 1933 during the U. S. banking crisis, Britons waited anxiously for some clue to their Government's financial policy. Over Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's signature a letter appeared in the London Times, and the country devoured it eagerly. Excerpts: "It may be of interest to record that in walking through St. James's Park today I noticed a grey wagtail. . . . Probably the occurrence of this bird in the heart of London has been recorded before, but I have not myself previously noted it in the Park. P.S. . . . I mean a grey wagtail...