Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little sound waves are deadlier than big ones. Last week the U.S. Army Signal Corps described (with dark reticence) some experiments at State College, Pa. on sound waves too short (high-pitched) for the human ear to hear. The inaudible racket killed mice in one minute. The insidious little waves also killed cockroaches and mosquitoes...
...corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national...
Despite his team's edge on paper, James MacDonald went along with his deceased countryman Robert Burns's observation that the best laid schemes o' mice an' men aft gang agley. "Comparative scores in soccer mean little," Mac-ventured yesterday, "adding that in the Yale game they mean nothing...
...mouse holocaust was a major disaster to researchers in medicine and biology. The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, though primarily devoted to biological research, had been for years the leading source of experimental mice. Last year it shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains, many researchers will have to start their laborious work all over again. To a researcher, a pedigreed mouse is a precision instrument. No ordinary mouse, nor a mouse of another strain, can be expected to react in exactly the same...
Last week Dr. Little was hopeful; his scientist customers were rallying round, offering breeding stock from descendants of mice he had once shipped to them. In a year or so, he hopes, he will have all the most important strains, housed this time in improved, fireproof buildings. He still lacks a few strains (notably C57 brown, sub-line C and C57 brown, sub-line A, used chiefly for breast cancer research). Many of the strains used to illustrate Mendelian laws are also missing. Dr. Little thinks that the missing mice strains may yet be found in some small laboratory...