Word: dice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mice sing is a scientific mystery. Dr. Slye thought Minnie might have a respiratory condition similar to human râles. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse...
...Dice, president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, secured a singing mouse in 1926, has bred many descendants without producing another real songster. Last spring he reported to the Yale Institute of Human Relations the mouse's superiority to the canary as a musical pet. Observed he: "The musical mouse can be heard only 25 feet, so that the song is less irritating to the nerves and can be escaped easily by moving out of range...
...drafted New York's popular, vote-getting Governor Herbert H. Lehman last month, President Roosevelt promptly rewarded him with the same kind of job insurance he gave Postmaster General Farley last week. Graciously declining to accept the High Commissioner's resignation, the President loaded the dice in Frank Murphy's $13,000 gamble by granting him a two-month leave of absence without pay, ending two days after elections...
...discourse, but there were many themes, and he sounded them like an organist pulling out random stops here & there with a not unmelodious effect. "The world is filled with menace. The shadows grow heavy," cried Leon Blum. "Mystery enshrouds the armaments of certain States. . . . They are shaking the dice...
...calendar works by Delaware's Stanley M. Arthurs and Frank E. Schoonover, showing the first voyage of the steamship Clermont and Sir Lancelot Leadeth Lady Belle Isoudt to the Castle at Joyous Card. Hanging between these two was a violent group of black bucks looking at two dice that add up to seven, by Florida's Christopher Clark. There were also a number of flower studies...