Word: mice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Londoners stroked their polls, musing. "It is all a matter of heredity," their countryman, one H. C. Brooke had announced. In collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...mercury with a burning glass and collected the atmosphere caused by the process. He labored under an old notion that combustible substances had a constituent, "phlogiston," which departed from them when they burned (as soot, for example). Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment. Lavoisier later worked out the modern theory that combustion ("fire") consists in the union...
Stone lions, tigers, llamas, elephants, jaguars, buffalo, deer, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, cows, mice, peacocks, giraffes, donkeys, badgers, wolves, gazelles, quaint monkeys, lightly hopping kangaroos, ingenuous but haughty ostriches and many other animals, made in Europe, will be used as street markers in St. Petersburg, Fla., the gift of generous C. Perry Snell...
...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...
...John Ringling, having eliminated wild beasts from his circus, prefers pictures of such docile animals as dogs, horses, camels, mice, sheep...