Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the victims slept in dormitories, and companions reported that they had gasped, groaned, coughed or choked for a few moments before they fell silent. None showed signs of food or other poisoning. No intestinal parasites have been found. The victims were not neurotic. The only clue: many went to bed after a heavy meal, which might cause wild dreams. It has been suggested that the terror conceivably could lead to a fatal "reflex shock...
...Maurer, China is the clue to the Orient, and Confucius and Lao-tse are the clues to China. From Confucius stem China's social virtues: family piety, loyalty; from Lao-tse her moral values: Taoism, the philosophy of "Do Nothing," don't fuss, let nature take its course. It was Lao-tse who inspired such axioms as "There are thirty-six ways of meeting a dilemma and the best of them is to run away." To an Oriental, this represented the wisdom of the bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance...
State Police are counting on the Harvard Bureau of Legal Medicine to turn up a clue in the recent "red scarf" murder at Bowdoin, police headquarters revealed last night...
...tended to be pleased at the fresh evidence of a partnership between godliness and grease paint. Said St. Thomas's vicar, the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin: "A first-class play by a first class author is worth more than a thousand sermons-even mine. Religion ought to be a clue to living. The old methods are no good...
...Farge, Germany, police found the end of a man's nose in a burglarized shop, plunked the clue in alcohol, two days later spotted their bandaged quarry, who confessed it would...