Word: raton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the Ambassadorship, there is a multi-million-dollar project for Schine's swank Boca Raton Club near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Geddes, who regards the earth as well as buildings on it as fair game for rearranging, has started bulldozers reshaping the land around Boca Raton. Objective: a gently rolling, foursquare-mile plateau with just about the highest elevation (16 ft.) in the area. On it will be built a community of de luxe "cottages" that will sell at from, $20,000 to $50,000 apiece...
...probably the best-known star in the world. In various foreign countries, he is known as Comondogo Mickey, el Raton Miguelito, Miguel Pericote, Topolino, Michel Souris, Miki Kuchi, Mikki Maus, Musse Pigg, Mickey Maus, Mickey Hiireke, Kiki Mavz'a, Mikkel Mus, Mickely...
...Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time, Schine also put together a chain of nine hotels, including Florida's swank Boca Raton Club and Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel...
...Russian-made cousin: Mikki Maus. Some names of the original Mickey, elsewhere: Miki Kuchi (Japan), Miguel Ratoncito (Spain), Michel Souris (France), Musse Pigg (Sweden), Camondongo Mickey (Brazil), El Raton Mickey (Argentina), Mikel Mus (Greece...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...