Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quantity and turned it over to the Army's Chemical Warfare Section. A lewisite plant was erected at Willoughby, Ohio, surrounded by a high fence and heavy guards. So secret was the process that no workers were allowed to leave the premises. The plant became known as The Mousetrap...
From his latest cell, where he must spend six months for practicing medicine without a license, nine months for carrying a revolver without a permit, Phillips explained his success. Said he: "The secret of my success in medicine and surgery is that I was able to build a better mousetrap...
...Best Mousetrap. How Disney developed his garage-studio of pre-Mickey days into the world's biggest and best mousetrap at Burbank, Calif, is a typical success story, except that its dollars are inseparably twined with its art. Disney fought for both against distributors, who could see small profit in shorts, small reason therefore to make them better. He preached and proved that quality and nothing else would produce advancing prof its. The demonstration began with hastily sound-dubbed Steamboat Willie - first successful Mickey Mouse-and became convincing with the first Silly Symphony to use color...
...Percy was a landlubber for only the first 14 of his 61 years, and he came out of World War I a Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...
Arthur Sampson of the Herald: "Harvard should win 15 to 0. The Crimson have held the upper hand in the last few years and have shown a consistent ability to rip the Army line to shreds with their mousetrap plays. Most of last year's starting lineup will be back for Harvard, and they should easily overpower one of the smallest Cadet teams in years...