Word: rat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond Joe." He had a fine funeral. His coffin cost $5,000. Senator Deneen came from Washington to walk in the rain in a procession that stretched for a mile and a half...
...with his machete at a 14-ft. anaconda until it was dead and ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare among their catches was a variety of the Thomas rat, second of its kind ever caught. (The first is in the British Museum.) They also trapped five strange mice with sharp noses, beady eyes and long claws, more a digger than a gnawer type of creature. Altogether in their bales, sacks, boxes and cages the explorers brought back...
...serve others. As for Henry Mason Day, Oilman Sinclair's handsome henchman who hired the Burnses and conveyed to them the Sinclair orders, he received a four-month sentence. To Oilman Sinclair's personal court record was added a sentence of six months for being the big rat in the trap who had ordered the others to help...
...beta rays (electrons, negatively charged particles) rat-tat-tat-ing against the atoms of elements might conceivably change those elements into new and precious forms. Mercury might yet become gold, as alchemists dreamed. Theoretically the procedure is simple. An atom of mercury contains at its centre, 198 protons (positively charged particles) and 118 electrons. Around that nucleus swirl 80 more electrons. These complete the mercury balance of 198 electrons against 198 protons. An atom of gold contains 197 protons and 118 electrons in its nucleus and 79 more electrons shooting around them. If it becomes possible for the beta particles...
...Lexington, Ky. five rattlesnakes were killed. Into their den at the University of Kentucky a small rat was introduced, prospective meal for the snakes. Sleepy, the reptiles forgot their supper. Hungry, the rat attacked the snakes; killed all of them...