Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening he found the true clue was to bet on the number one dog. This hound has been trained to run by the rail. That makes him a safe bet since he's first to the inside post and closest to "jeep...
...planned series will be based on refuibished oldies, e.g., My Friend Flicka. ¶Universal-International, M-G-M and Paramount are watching the competition with an accountant's eye. Said U.-I.'s President Milton Rackmil: "Any decision [to plunge into TV] hinges on the profits." Major clue to Hollywood's interest in TV deals lies in the booming success of ABC's tie-in with Walt Disney (TIME, Dec. 27). Since its start last October, Disneyland has been in the top ten in the Nielsen ratings; one of its songs, The Ballad of Davy Crockett...
...lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden of Faith, has never really been overthrown." Where does such faith-with-reason lead America? Daven port did not live long enough to give more than clues to an answer. One clue lies in his feeling that the conflict between old-fashioned American individualism and the modern pressures for the welfare state need not (perhaps should not) be resolved, but kept in equilibrium: that this very balance, this state of tension, itself is freedom. Another clue lies...
Just why this is so presents no problems, as the Big Men on any Louisiana campus will reveal. Huey Long is their man, an Idol of the idols. He awed the people, and the B.M.O.C. have taken the clue...
...made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...