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Word: miceli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Run. In Fitchburg, Mass, three white mice routed a nylon-stocking queue, left three males in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...very efforts of scholars to save their archives were what destroyed them. Reports the Bulletin: "When the great library of the Chapter of St. Thomas [in France] was threatened, it was hurriedly evacuated for storage in a rural area. There the books were destroyed ... by rain, mold, rats, mice and insects." The library itself was never damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culture Carnage | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...since ceased being physically necessary. Science knows ways of making ova develop without the help of a male. But up till now, mothers have been practically indispensable. Then along came two experimenters in Bar Harbor, Me. Dr. W. L. Russell and Patricia M. Douglass have bred thriving litters of mice whose mothers were never born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Are Mothers Necessary? | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

First, there was a delicate operation to transplant the ovaries of female embryos into grown-up female mice. The embryo ovaries grew and developed. When the host-mothers were mated, the grafted ovaries produced healthy young which bore no genetic resemblance to the host-mothers. This process might be repeated indefinitely, said Dr. Russell, producing mice with any given number of unborn female ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Are Mothers Necessary? | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Dice's owls appeared less than wise. They never learned to search the floor systematically for mice which they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Owls Debunked | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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