Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputy Prime Minister has his ornithological facts wrong: butcherbirds (shrikes) do not eat worms, nor do they eat and run. Instead, it is their practice to impale insects, field mice and small birds on thorns, and later return to the natural larder to eat at leisure...
...hormone will cause a recognizable reaction in the sex glands. If there is no reaction, the patient is presumed not pregnant. But no method is foolproof-frogs injected only with distilled water have developed reactions. Some tests (e.g., the Friedman test using rabbits, the Aschheim-Zondek test with mice) are highly accurate, but require 48 to 98 hours for definite results...
...Prince of Wales; boxing matches and dice games were not uncommon. The menu was unappealing, however: four dollars weekly for "fish, eggs, and dessert, with meat extra." Such fare drove many students to other places to eat, and 1925 saw the last scrambled eggs in Memorial Hall. Experimental mice in the University's Psychological Laboratories now scurry through the old basement kitchen...
...point, Walt himself might agree. He admits that he likes children and animals better than grown-up people. "Some of the most fascinating people I have ever met," he once said, "are animals." He has, understandably, a special feeling for mice. No mousetraps are permitted in his home, and once, when he heard one of his animators call Mickey Mouse a four-letter word, he fired the man on the spot...
...politics, and sold them to a New York distributor. The distributor went broke before he paid off, and Walt soon did the same. But for six months after that, he tried to keep the business going. Some days he had nothing to do but sit and play with the mice that infested the studio. Walt kept a few in a cage in the office, and some of them became quite tame. One mouse known as Mortimer showed no desire at all to escape, so he was made a trusty, and lived on Walt's desk...