Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Animals and fish periodically thrive and decline. Many, notably lynx and salmon in Canada, have a cycle that averages nine and two-thirds years. A peak in elephants comes about every 62 years. Mice in the U.S. fluctuate in a four-year cycle; a plague sets them back every presidential-election year...
...Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...
...Naval Unit's experiments, mice inhaled a fine spray of specially treated horse serum and then received large doses of mouse-influenza organisms in their noses. The mice proved immune to influenza and stayed that way about six days. The doctors think that the Russian method is successful because it puts influenza antibodies (blood elements which fight the disease) where they are needed...
Trust-Brainers. In Washington, D.C., mice tried just as hard to get at the Department of Agriculture's dehydrated cheese as they did at the real thing...
...When Dawson showed Dr. Mills a box of sawdust as a potential nest for mice, a mouse obligingly jumped out to prove him right. He found "mice droppings in and about dishes in the dining rooms...