Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
...Rosalie Reynolds did the work for her Master of Science degree. It was a hard job, because hyaluronidase is an elusive substance that has never been isolated in pure form. Mrs. Reynolds could find none in tissue taken from healthy mice. She induced cancer in 50 mice and produced uniformly heavy concentrations of the enzyme. The percentage was equally high regardless of the cancer's size or the substance used to produce...
...Like mice carrying away the stuffing of a mattress to build their nests, local seavengers are hollowing out the insides of the University library system. These pilferers of books, monographs, and examination papers are not bad men. They have just fallen victims to the idea that the man who uses a book has the right to own it. It's probably that these are times of social change for moral standards to be so out of whack, but the University cannot subscribe to this hazily defined philosophy of self-interest...
Though the jousting between cat & mice is an old stand-by of the animated cartoon, Cinderella redeems it with such lovably drawn mice as the eager but inept...
...only thing wrong with "Cinderella" is that it devotes too much time to the activities of the mice. Versatile fellows though they may be, they are super-imposed on the original fairytale, and prolong the picture somewhat. But this is only a minor fault, since most of the time the mice are entertaining...