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Word: mousetrap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they can exchange ideas and even help solve a problem." She remembers a Hungarian agronomist who had read in TIME about a California farmer whose artichoke crop was being ruined by mice. We gave him the farmer's address, and perhaps, after all, he did have a better mousetrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...article on Erwin Tichauer and "A Better Mousetrap" [May 2] was very interesting. However, I hope the ideas described in the article are not representative of Mr. Tichauer's best thinking. There are problems with his ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1969 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...there is a way of doing things which is obviously much better than what anyone else has to offer them, in a bad enough emergency, everyone will jump at it. I've been only concerned to produce something really better than anyone else has. It's the old mousetrap story, you see; the better mousetrap story. Only, the mice have to become insufferable first. Until then we all stick to our old ineffective mousetraps. I think we have a better way of teaching English, but while you're teaching English, you might as well teach everything else. That...

Author: By B. AMBLER Boucher and John PAUL Russo, S | Title: An Interview With I. A. Richards | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

Americans are jubilant over Apollo 10, the first successful attempt to put three men and a raccoon in lunar orbit. The Loeb breaks box office records with its revival of The Mousetrap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...Mousetrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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