Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ample time for the regular summer season of infantile paralysis, Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan, one of the vaccine inventors, disclosed a simple, speedy test of a child's susceptibility to the disease. A mouse and a special filtrate, which any careful bacteriologist can make with a few mice and some potent infantile paralysis virus, are all a doctor needs...
...long house at Mount Hope and the tax assessment is one of the two highest in Massachusetts. Placid, meticulous Mrs. Prentice has a great pipe organ, gives elaborate musicales. A corps of geneticists and laboratory workers is constantly in residence, juggling the genes and chromosomes of 10,000 mice. Friends and admirers say that Mr. Prentice's unique achievement could never have come about had he not been rich enough to finance it, inquisitive and learned enough to direct it himself...
Scientist. Not entirely to nearsightedness and fatuity does Mr. Prentice lay the blame for confusion and low milk output. The science of genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...
...Urey in 1931. Long before Dr. Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery (TIME, Nov. 26), experimenters were finding that heavy water did strange things to small animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy water in the human body might be a cause of old age and senile death...
Time was when Robert Nathan toyed gently and amiably with his congenital melancholia. Always a writer who preferred fantasy to strict realism, he once put his deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth...