Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles. Conclusion was that air pressure requirements are not innate but a matter of conditioning...
Screech owls are heavy eaters, devour great numbers of field mice, insects and other farm pests. For that reason they are protected almost everywhere in the U. S., although they occasionally eat small birds. New York State game officials admitted last week that the patrolman and the Rockefeller warden had technically violated the law by shooting the owls, but because of the circumstances seemed disinclined to take any action. None of the persons attacked could sue anyone for their hurts or their scares, since neither landowners nor governments are liable for attacks by wild animals...
...legalizing booking bets on horse-races and parimutuel bets on dog-races. Fortnight ago the now superfluous Texas Racing Commission received from one Tom Katz of Mesquite a postcard application for a license to operate a cat-racing track. Ingenious Tom Katz, besides describing the electric mice with which he proposed to excite spry young felines, explained that he would also give employment to middle-aged and retired cats by having them chased into holes at the end of a 75-yd track by electric dogs. The Texas Racing Commission suspected Applicant Katz was not serious...
...drama with humor not so pure. At times "There Goes My Girl" is definitely amusing, but the stretches of dialogue between the sparse high spots stretch off into the dim, dim distance. The film is not recommended for exam wearied students. Most trite remark: "What are we, men or mice...
...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...