Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forbade it to publish and sell the book. The decision made thousands of citizens more impatient than ever to get their morals ruined. It also proved again that finding a yardstick for proving a serious book indecent is as difficult as weighing a pound of waltzing mice...
...evident that Reader Williams [TIME, Oct. 21] knows much less about cats than TIME. He is suffering under the general false impression that cats only hunt mice and rats when hungry, therefore a poor skinny cat makes a good hunter...
...Mice with Parcels. She went back to her nursery. During the next ten years she wrote and illustrated all but a few of the 27 now-famed Tales. Beatrix Potter was deeply aware, says Author Lane, "of the realities of nature . . . and the laws of nature . . . are nowhere softened or sentimentalized in any of her stories"-though they are often made humorous. Ginger, the cat who runs the grocery store in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, will sell his groceries to any animals except mice. " 'I cannot bear,' said he, 'to see them going...
...Negroes who comprise nearly one third of U.S. adult illiterates. The 500 are a "pilot group"; the U.S. Office of Education hopes to wipe out all adult illiteracy. Just as the Army primers had talked about jeeps and girls rather than cats and mice, the textbooks for the Negroes were tailored to fit the special interests of a community, e.g., cottonfields. The Army found that exercises like "see the dog run" only bored adults...
...women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and caught fish with horsehair. They wrote unsentimental Lilliputian love poems, such...