Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious outlook is good protection against sudden death on the highways, according to a University of Colorado team headed by Psychologist John J. Conger. The team studied 264 men at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, found that psychologists' scales of values were the best clue to accident proneness. Especially important: values in the religious, theoretical and esthetic fields. Subjects who seldom or never had driving accidents were those who attached more importance to religious values than to the theoretical or esthetic. The high-accident group tended to be less conventional, more complex and conflicted, less in harmony...
...chief of Scotland's far-flung Clan Campbell, Ian Douglas Campbell, eleventh Duke of Argyll, came in line for a windfall of at least $140,000 from the estate of a stranger, a London-born lady named Mrs. Eliza Sale, who died last December at 88. The big clue behind Eliza's bequest: her maiden name was Campbell. Glowed the duke, a well-heeled man: "I can only assume that the bequest was made to me as head of the Clan Campbell . . . It was a most admirable attitude for the lady to adopt...
Last week the police found one more clue-a shoe and scarf lying near a glazed-over hole in the ice and snow covering the Cambridge reservoir. The scarf was identical with the one father Clark was wearing: his wife had given one to him and one to Tom for Christmas. Next day, when divers found Tom's body under the ice, authorities concluded that in the darkness he must have mistaken the reservoir for a snow-covered meadow. "Another victim," said Tom's father wearily, "of a criminal fraternity prank." At week's end, Deke national...
Mencken's shrewd assessment suggests a clue to Dreiser's loneliness and the ursine indignation that set him on the path toward his final intellectual disaster. The man had a hankering after general ideas, but no talent for them. Dreiser had juggled with New Thought-a heresy from common sense fashionable before World War I-as well as with antiSemitism. Yet his was the genuine voice of a man who has lost his bearings in industrial society. His sense of pity and tragedy never left him, and for men of such temperament who retain a materialist philosophy, there...
...than I think I would have in the past, but that may be also just advancing years. The doctors certainly say that my physical reactions, the clinical record, is splendid today." It was toward the end of his conference that Ike seemed to contribute the most fascinating (and baffling) clue of the day. Said he: "I have my own ideas of what is a proper sphere of activity for the President of the United States. One of them ... is that he doesn't go out barnstorming for himself under any conditions, and even had I stood for the presidency...