Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
...Normal Model School, got plenty of dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white mice, and played the piano. The boy who used to be a neighbor still proudly displays a scar over his left eye where Barbara Ann hit him with a shovel: it is one of the few unladylike acts ever recorded against her; and the boy is now convinced that he must...
...book offers no headline-hungry conclusions-nothing more sensational than some stuffy equations which show how many microbes the experimenters had to spray into a closed chamber to kill off their mice and guinea pigs. But the between-the-lines conclusion is monstrously clear; spreading infectious diseases by air is a practical, cheap, comparatively easy, deadly method of warfare...
Asked to comment on Adams House's "The male Animal" in which she appeared, budding actress Anna Prince replied, "I am a senior at Radcliffe. I used to keep two white mice in my room. I am an English Major. I have an Indian motorcycle." She then departed through the "stage door," a conveniently-placed window overlooking Mr. Auburn Street, for a quick between-the-acts smoke...
...used to generate the waves. Neither did it tell the military objective of the experiments. The Germans tried with no success to use sound as a military weapon in World War II, but their devices were comparatively crude. The Signal Corps may see some possibility of killing not only mice...