Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doctor's laboratory, as in a test tube, the Doctor's human isolation is broken down by the alchemical tricks of his more or less than human friends. The white rat, the tip of whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once...
...stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...
...Stavsky, tutor in Animal Psychology is conducting an experiment in an attempt to investigate the orientation of different animal forms in a field of gravitational force. A rat or a guinea pig is placed upon an inclined plane in a position parallel to the base of the plane. The animal is negatively geotropic, that is, it naturally tends to climb up when placed upon a sloping surface...
French strategists say that these forts can maintain a cross-fire amid which no army could advance or so much as a rat live. Sunk deep in Mother Earth, the forts are supposed to be able to withstand indefinitely the most powerful bombardment, the heaviest bombing...
...third time a police patrol set out from Aklavik, but this time Albert Johnson had fled from Rat River, was trying to beat his way through the arctic winter to Alaska and safety. Followed the north country's greatest man hunt. Trappers rushed their wives to trading posts for safety, then joined the posse...