Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figuring the miles-per-gallon on a 5,000-ft. climb keeps him scribbling for 20 minutes. "A man can just about keep up with his work if the flight is ideal and not a damn thing goes wrong," an engineer explained. "If anything slips it's a rat race all the way back to the base. What this thing needs is an engineer with four hands and five eyes...
Many a man has gone grey trying to find a cure for grey hair. Even vitamins such as pantothenic acid, which works fine on rats, have no effect on humans. But the search goes on. Last week Dr. James Hundley and Robert B. Ing of the National Institute of Health reported that they had found a new clue in their rat cages. Black rats which got a diet with plenty of pantothenic acid but not enough copper went grey within eight weeks; boosting the copper in their food started a fine crop of black hair growing again within five days...
...enough for the other. And it is never good enough-even in intention-for the author of Born Yesterday. So little has Author-Director Kanin been concerned with writing a play that he hasn't wholly managed to write a show. As in last season's The Rat Race, he has leaned heavily on vaudeville...
...game ended when Michel climbed to the top of the church to pull down its shaky cross. He fell, but only Paulette saw him fall. A little later, his family stumbled across the children's miniature cemetery, with its crosses labeled "Mole," "Rat," "Lizard," "3 Ladybirds," "15 Ants," "6 Flies." They did not think to look for Michel under the largest cross of all, the one from the church, where Paulette had buried him before wandering away...
Forty-six-year-old Dr. Skinner has nothing particular against rats, except that they have the grave defect of living for only two or three years. A researcher can educate a promising rat, guide him through his school days; then, just when the rat is ready for his degree, he dies of old age. Pigeons, which often live 15 years, might be better, Dr. Skinner reasoned. Their reaction time is like that of humans; they have good color vision, and are not as stupid as their posturing and cooings have led people to believe...