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Word: rat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of California, a female rat known as BH-17543 gave birth to a litter of 18. Previous record for a litter of rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...pair proceeded to a hotel where Father Coughlin found occasion to declare that a choice between Presidential Nominees Roosevelt and Landon was a choice "between carbolic acid and rat poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Voices (Cont'd) | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...division could take place Scot Campbell Stephen, M. P.. also of the Independent Labor Party, got up to say: "His Majesty's Government's supporters are cowardly robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Small Miracle | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Never have I seen an institution called a 'school' which had so little claim to that name. Buildings are unfit for habitation-badly heated, rat infested, with inadequate sanitary facilities. Children are walled in like prisoners, in spite of ample grounds and beautiful views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Delinquents | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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