Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rat!" Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...
...Coll had not been married into the underworld for nothing. She resolutely refused to give any in formation, and when confronted with Ventre, classically cried: "So you squealed, you rat...
...rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request for a definition of poetry, he replied that he "could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognized the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us." Last month, before a Cambridge audience, he finally told the world what he thinks about poetry, how he wrote his own poems and what it felt like to write them. This lecture...
Harvard last week took its place beside the U. S. Public Health Service as a victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last...
...credit but the net result was the same. Huge savings could be effected by elimination of these costly duplications. R.G. Dun & Co. is proud of the fact that Abraham Lincoln while an Illinois lawyer was one of their correspondents. Still in their files is a Lincoln report noting a rat hole in the office of a concern he was investigating suggesting that it "should be looked into...