Word: mousetrap
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...Polluters" [Sept. 14] was informative and well written, it cast a very poor image of Marengo, Ill. As a native of this Midwestern Utopia, may I inform you that Marengo is famous not for manure control but rather as the home of one of the nation's two mousetrap factories, a large apiary and a thriving mushroom farm. In short, Marengo is more than...
...Success does not necessarily depend on a better mousetrap - since one British researcher has jumped right into the vanguard of modern technology by deliberately building a worse machine. See SCIENCE, "The Unridable Bicycle...
...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...
...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...
...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...