Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows that to win takes skill (in sailing) and advertising (in business). In fact, Lambert's chief message to mankind is that the man who builds a better mousetrap and expects the world to beat a path to his door without advertising will leave not a yacht behind...
From the opening kickoff, Michigan's Wolverines took a calculated risk. They knew it would take something special to stop the versatile multiple offense (TIME, Oct. 8) of Coach Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State powerhouse. Almost as if they had never heard of mousetrap blocks, Michigan's linemen wore themselves out firing into the State backfield. Ends slashed hard and fast at the ball carrier, linebackers gambled and charged headlong into offensive holes. For half the game the tactic worked. Until they put on one sustained 45-yd. drive late in the second quarter, the Spartans gained...
Certainly not nigel molesworth the curse of st custard's. For it was he, the reader soon discovers, who stole the cheese from the matron's mousetrap, dropped the goldfish into the piano, set a bear trap by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and rendered poor little Eustace Togglington insensible on the very first night of school, while trying out the "nuclear torturer...
School for Hope shuns brogue but catches the lilt of Irish talk, skirts bathos but dips candidly into human feelings. In its quiet, pastoral way, it celebrates nature as well as human nature. No more pretentious than a mousetrap, it captures the novelist's most elusive mouse-a little bit of life...
...Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...