Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cat* is played mostly in the country. Urchins borrow pitching gloves worn by their fathers through a career on the highschool nine, gather in a meadow, "measure a bat" for first up, compete through long summer mornings with protesting squeals and squawks that stir the catbirds to caustic music...
...taxi and set off for the Polo Grounds, saw Catcher Devormer's sons, jeering and sneering, trot back to their home. The judge had given a suspended sentence to the Devormers, pere & fils, had gently advised the brothers to play no more one o'cat in St. Nicholas Avenue, the catcher-father to interfere with no more officers...
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...will feed the cats on the rats, and in turn will feed the rats on the stripped carcasses of the cats, thus giving each rat one-fourth of a cat...
...will feed the cats on rats and will start a rat ranch adjoining the cat ranch. The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, and if we start with 100,000 rats we will have four rats a day for each cat, which is plenty...