Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, Faery Products, Ltd. offered for export a "better mousetrap." The trap has a platform surrounding the bait. When the mouse touches the platform, the trap springs; the bait can be used again. Price: about...
...recurring anger whenever he couldn't get a patient into one of the two-dozen hospital beds available for the city's 25,000 Negroes. Why not, she thought, build and run a hospital for Negroes? As she put "it to herself, it was the "proverbial better mousetrap waiting to be built." Mrs. Starr, who had nursed in the rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck...
...White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
Snap Back. In Washington, a patent for a better mousetrap was awarded to Sir Isaac Newton...
...modified on the appearance in the medical sanctum of assistant coach Eddie Davis with a wounded second finger on his right hand. Davis, a giant tackle on the 1946 team and a present Business School student, revealed that the injured digit had been "caught in a mousetrap play...