Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...licked. Next Friday the junior varsities will determine which group of scrubs is the scrubbier. This afternoon at Cambridge there will be two more Harvard-Yale games, one on the stadium's sacred god between the 150-pound teams, and the other between the Harvard house champions (who would die for dear old Winthrop) and the Yale champion class team (who will fight to the end for good...
Significance. Everything thus continues to depend on the life of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg whose doctor expects him to live many a year. Should he die in the present crisis General von Schleicher & Friends could no longer rule by the President's decree and could not hope that the German people would elect another President favorable to them...
...which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last winter in Washington he went to a reception at the Spanish Embassy in a flannel shirt...
...wise rat that knows its own fodder. Chicago's rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week...
...Ratkiller Nicholes went to work. Wherever rats were plentiful he distributed pieces of bread, hamburger steak and apples, in each piece of food a drop of his chemical (barium carbonate with a slight touch of barium sulphide). Because the Nicholes poison is comparatively slow acting the rats do not die on the premises they infest. Hungry human beings who might eat the poisoned food, which is odorless would not be harmed. They would vomit immediately. Rats cannot vomit...