Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wistfully: "All I have now is a great Dane, a Chihuahua, three cats named Sabina. Romulus and Ophelia, and a rabbit known as Bublitchki. I had a pink poodle, Bon Bon, which just died after we had it dyed pink to match my pink Jaguar ... I also had some mice, but somebody let them out in Atlantic City...
...brought from home, they draw $1.25 a day for food. In groups of four and five, they set up housekeeping in grubby, cramped little walkups that one described as "cleaned-up ratholes." They sleep in borrowed bunks, cook, wash and eat in primitive kitchens, wage an endless war against mice and cockroaches. It is a far cry from campus life...
...Mice Under Stress. The Navy has one problem which the Army is glad to pass: the sardine-packing of 3,000 or more men into the hull of a single ship for months on end. So the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda is crowding mice into little boxes and checking the working of their adrenal glands (an index to stress). Purpose: to learn how and why their "vitality and viability" go down in a crowd. Other Bethesda specialties...
...awed, by the burdens of his position, where a single slip of the tongue may betray a national secret. But when carbon 14 is mentioned, he lights up like a Roman candle. He remembers with special pleasure his dealings with the archaeologists. "They are all as poor as church mice," he says, "but such enthusiasm!" They brought him unimpressive things -fragments of charcoal from ancient hearths, or bones of extinct bison-and when he measured the age of the objects, the archaeologists made him feel that he had done something priceless and wonderful for them...
...recent years Philosopher Bertrand Russell has taken to fiction, but fiction has not yet taken to Philosopher Russell. The reason is that when logicians with a sense of humor start toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...