Word: mousetrap
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MYSTERY: The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie's first play on Broadway since Witness for the Prosecution, perpetrates its murder in a snowbound manor. Still on stage in London after neany eight years of continuous performances, it is the longest running play in the history of the English theater...
...know the theory and the equipment works.'' said Thaler last week, "and our experiments have been successful from the beginning, but we will have to learn a lot more before we will be able to say we have a system. We have been trying to design a mousetrap without knowing the habits of the mouse...
...guilty of breach of contract. In Congress the oaths are gathering enemies. Three bills to repeal them were introduced in the House. And in the Senate, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, who co-sponsored a repeal bill with Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, called Mundt's anti-Communist mousetrap "an unnecessary, futile gesture toward the memory of an earlier...
...needed a trade fair building in Afghanistan that could be flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas, geodesic domes proved just the thing for the DEW Line radomes. Says he, with the satisfaction of the man whose mousetrap has at last clicked: "The DEW Line radomes stretch from western Alaska to Baffin Island, and the Marine Corps has almost 1,000 domes in use, some in the Antarctic. North Pole, South Pole, I'm all around the world...
...curious to see Agatha Christie's mystery The Mousetrap, because it is still running in London after six years and holds the all-time record for commercial longevity. It is a fairly neat and entertaining piece of construction, though the characters are all clear stereotypes. But it certainly ranks lower than her Witness for the Prosecution...