Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mythology. By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig -mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata-even worms that do the cootch...
...three months, is "innocence in action. He has the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. He still looks at the world with uncontaminated wonder, and with all living things he has a terrific sympathy. It was the most natural thing in the world for him to imagine that mice and squirrels might have feelings just like...
...thought we would make another attempt at growing it," Enders explained later. "There was nothing new about tissue culture of virus, but it seemed to us the possibilities had not been adequately explored. Almost all the virus work had been carried on in susceptible animals like mice, monkeys, and pigs. But scientists had never found it practical. But scientists had never found it practical to work with animals in the case of polio, and nearly all attempts to apply test-tube growth to any kind of virus had failed...
...separate groups were formed for students of biology and physics, it is important that they should not be afraid to cross the barriers of their field. For the elementary knowledge of physics, which all biology students must have, would be useful in developing themes outside the world of mice and earthworms...
...place may depend on bodily mechanisms entirely different from those which regulate other aspects of physical wellbeing, such as growth. So far, Dubos can only hint at what these mechanisms may be. One clue lies in acute starvation, as distinguished from long-range underfeeding. If Dubos takes well-fed mice, but omits their feedings for 30 hours (not long enough to cause obvious physical distress), they become suddenly susceptible to artificial infections, which prove rapidly fatal. Some chemicals also have this effect-notably sodium citrate. (By contrast chronically undernourished mice can maintain a normal level of resistance...