Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like a rat in a corner," as he said himself, he was driven to seek and win the Republican nomination of 1912 over Roosevelt's opposition. Then followed the three-cornered contest between a Yale man, a Harvard man, and a Princeton man for the Presidency. Everybody loved "Bill" Taft but love does not always make votes. Taft was ignominiously defeated. Though Connecticut went for Woodrow Wilson in that election, Taft had the satisfaction of beating Roosevelt in the state...
...seamen are not cowards. But is it not true to say that every time there is a submarine disaster the public conscience is shocked at our own flesh and blood being required by national policy . . . to face death in conditions in which they have no more chance than a rat in a trap? And there is not a power here today . . . which has not experienced such disasters...
...Mouse Unit" Potency. The potency of female sex hormone substances is measured in "mouse units" or "rat units." One "rat unit" equals four "mouse units." One gram of comparatively crude hormone-containing substance is sufficient, if injected with properly minute doses, to make 30,000 spayed mice rut again. The crystals will stimulate 8,000,000 mice or 2,000,000 rats...
...Here you are, sir,' he said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That...
...Allahabad last week thousands of pilgrims had assembled to watch the great procession of the feasts of Kumbh Mela. To the shrill squealing of oboes, the thumping of drums, gaily bedizened camels, horses and elephants swayed solemnly down the streets. In the midst of the procession a nervous, rat-eyed elephant suddenly ran amok, sought to bury its stumpy, gold banded tusks in the rear of the elephant ahead...