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Word: rat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Allied propagandists were busy at the time, picturing H. R. & I. H. as a debauched "Rat Face," the story of his New Year's card has been 13 years in coming to light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Gallant Rat Face | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Burlington, Wis., six weeks ago, a large female rat crawled into the back seat of a car belonging to one Mike Scaffano. There she built her nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Some few days later Capt. Sorenson, appearing in the Department of Commerce investigation, said under oath that Reporter Duffy's article was false, that Reporter Duffy himself was "a dirty, rat-faced liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liar Duffy or Liar Sorenson? | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...mighty Anaconda itself which carried the Carson case, last August, to the U. S. Supreme Court. Chief Counsel Charles Evans Hughes argued earnestly that side-charging furnaces had been used before the Desert Rat won his patents. Dubious, the Magna Copper Co. of Ari zona did not wait for the decision, settled last fortnight with Carson's backers for $75,000 and an arrangement for future use of the patents. And last week, the Supreme Court briefly denied Anaconda's petition. Holding the battle at length won. the Carson Investment Co. announced that only the labor of accounting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda's Troubles | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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