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Word: rodents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's Stella D'Oro Biscuit Co. was found guilty of selling baked goods fouled with rodent hair, was fined $3,000 on each of four counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: There Ought to Be a Law | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Several solutions have been proposed. The obvious one, of course, is to hire a janitor to lock Paine's doors at 10 p.m., shortening rodent festivities by five hours. The Music Department, however, has held this arrangement financially undesirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music for the Masses | 3/14/1956 | See Source »

While such relics as pieces of wall from old Harvard buildings are safely sealed in the University's orderly archives, things are different a few miles down the river. The Massachusetts State Archives' collection rests now in boxes and on the floor of a leaky, unventilated, rodent-haunted room up in the attic of the State House. The rat-food includes the original 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter, many letters and documents relating to the Constitutional Convention, and thousands of other items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archaic Archives | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

...alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AH, HAA! | 10/5/1955 | See Source »

...with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete, a monstrous mingling of common house cat and Long John Silver. Everything always went blooey, of course. Pegleg charging, music pounding, Minnie squealing-and Mickey rushing madly to the rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE MOUSE THAT WALT BUILT | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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