Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyone stays asleep. . . . They talk politics, of getting somebody out of office. . . . They saw they would be putting their money down a rat hole with the present politicians in office. . . . We [the committee] have the organization to coördinate and direct efforts of the people to save their city, but there are no efforts for us to coördinate. . . . We will be fortunate to get $20,000,000 together. We have canvassed many large taxpayers but they feel they do not want the money they put up wasted...
...Dudley, England, the Town Council learned that shrewd citizens were breeding rats, lopping off their tails, illicitly collecting the town bounty of tuppence per rat...
...Veterinary & the Doctor. To show that doctors of men must respect and cooperate with doctors of animals, the Department of Agriculture's John Robbins Mohler (pathologist) listed some livestock diseases which menace man-tuberculosis, glanders, foot-&-mouth disease, undulant fever, rabies, trichinosis, tularemia, rat-bite fever, erysipelas, cow pox, measles...
...exclaimed: "That star does not belong there. Take it out." But that, to scientists, is a prosaic anecdote when there are papers to be heard on such exotic subjects as "Respiration of Tomato Fruits," "Animal Ecology of Oaks," "Cytologic Changes Following Vasoligation of the Kidney of the Albino Rat...