Search Details

Word: rat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...louse carries a violent, epidemic form of the disease common in Europe. In the U. S. typhus is milder and endemic, travels in the rat flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Typhus Vaccine | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...kangaroo-rat, which is no marsupial, but a jumping rodent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fire Horse | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...morally, but broiling for it. Last shot: Robinson's wide writhing mouth pleading up at the judge for two minutes, "You're killing me at the wrong time. You should have killed me when I was taking his money. It ain't fair to let a rat live and kill a man. It ain't fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...they went to the Kreuger penthouse at No. 791 Park Avenue. Asked for his explanation Herr Kreuger again muttered something about "an error in translation." grew white, slumped into a chair. Bankers Murnane and Durant politely did not press the issue, called a doctor, withdrew. If they smelled a rat they did not follow their noses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at Work | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | Next