Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive them out of their shelter: a moment later comes the rat-tat-tat of machine guns...
With little more than a bandying of the words "liar" and "rat" by two excited members, the House approved the Government's policy...
Miss Weekes did not see the raider. She was presiding over her classroom. But she heard the roar, of course, and the rat-a-tat of its machine guns. The Jerry must be raking the streets, she decided, and. as quickly as she could, she herded her class into a place which she considered comparatively safe near a hallway. In another classroom Headmaster Stevenson said briskly: "Under the desks, boys...
...Navy, maintains facilities for physiological research at the east end. Graduate and undergraduate thesis-writers here are each charged with the welfare and guidance of from twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions of 'em. One gets out of his cage once in a while, and there are always several bandit rats...
...which stimulate cellular multiplication so that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract the biodynes from 1) fish-liver oils and 2) heated yeast cells. The extracts are mixed with a petrolatum and lanolin base, sell...