Word: rat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S inaccuracies are chronic, flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...
...grey rat is black. Henry de Jouvenel was not christened Henri. See p. 408, French Qui Etes-Vous...
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...soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed "Oh, rats!" Rachael Galpern became hysterical. First a doctor, then...
Plague, most feared of infectious diseases, is spread by rats and ground squirrels. In stamping it out from California, where it last appeared in epidemic form, it has been suggested that rats be destroyed by infecting them with bacteria, which would be passed from one rat to another and thus bring about wholesale extermination. On the other hand, investigators for the State Board of Health find possible contamination of human food from such infected rats. Experiments failed to demonstrate any great efficiency in the so-called exterminators but showed that they might lead to the production of a chronic carrier...