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Word: rodents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: U. S. Tragedy | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...House prepared to hear and cheer all these new developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today lifted from the hat with ostentatious pride and self-satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: House of Commons. | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...There isn't room for both of us," she announced. "Friend rodent is determined to stay and seems to have the College on his side, for they won't do anything to get rid of him. So I'm going to leave in a hurry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAT UPSETS STENOGRAPHERS--BUT NOT IN USUAL MANNER | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

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