Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Join chemically and inject into rat...
Tradition has it that the first filly to boot a winner home this morning will wear the winner's wreath in the biggest rat race of them all-a wedding band--before any other member of her class. If she already has the services of a legally acquired stud, the story goes, she will be the first to foal...
Federal aid to education is long overdue. The $300,000,000 for this year will just be a beginning towards reviving an educational system that is in notoriously shaky shape. In Detroit, for example, rat catchers and garbage collectors get paid more than school teachers. In the South, which is financially less vigorous than Detroit, many teachers are paid starvation wages, and school buildings make Harvard Hall look like Lamont's Poetry Room...
...many others of Mr. Marquand's fine, upstanding young men, is nevertheless a pretty cold fish. He does the right thing at the right time, has perfect control over his emotions, and never makes mistakes; one gets the impression that while he may feel himself caught in the rat-race of modern business society it is for him the most suitable of all possible ruts...
...would be strange if his audience didn't. Marquand likes Charley Gray and he is vexed with the people and circumstances that push him around. He thinks Charley is in a rat race; he is frank enough to admit that he finds himself running...