Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sano went back to her tissue-culture laboratory at Temple University's School of Medicine and set to work on rats. To make her glue, she took some heart's blood from the rat to be grafted, mixed it with heparin to 'keep it from clotting, separated the cells from the blood plasma, put the plasma in the icebox. She shook the cells up with a special salt solution, separated the salty liquid and kept it, threw the cells away. She calls the salty fluid her "extract." The plasma plus the extract constitutes her glue...
...Rat Skins. Dr. Sano grafted skin on rats' chests or the napes of their necks, the areas that move the most. She first removed a small piece of skin from the test area and waited four days for healing to start. For grafting, she used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...
...Police dug into the shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...
...example, we have promised to keep you posted (and have kept you posted) on such news stories as the rat-race in Spain and how Franco's stanchest supporters are getting set to run out on him . . . on the latest tricks of the U-boat packs that may mean rising losses on the Atlantic again ... on the nervous lootings of Britain's shipping magnates at the prospect of a big, permanent U.S. merchant fleet ... on the strength of Lord Louis Mountbatten's command in Southeast Asia and the signs that action over there cannot be far away...
Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, erstwhile leader of the jazz-famous Five Pennies, got some publicity in the rat-ridden little California town of Albany. The Mayor had called for a good extermination plan. In an attempt to pied-pipe the rats, Nichols started tooting his trumpet in the center of town, started marching toward the Bay. A few children and photographers were all that followed...