Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning an Australian rancher swept 28,000 poisoned mice off his veranda. In a neighboring village 544 tons of mice were killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice...
This equals the annual damage done by rats, mice or weevils, and exceeds that of tornadoes, earthquakes or arsonists...
Julian Huxley, dull scientist brother of sprightly Novelist Aldous, was reminded last week of the old nursery rhyme, "While the cat's away the mice will play." His Government-sponsored lecture tour of the U.S. finished, Scientist Huxley was awaiting a ship to take him back to England when word came that he had been fired as director of the London...
...Like Of Mice and Men, this book could be made into a play simply by turning the descriptions into stage directions and filling out the dialogue. The writing is spare, bold, sometimes tensely humorous. What makes it great propaganda, over & above the professional skill with which it is written, is a certainty of viewpoint that does not admit the possibility of final military defeat because it does not admit the possibility of moral defeat. This is the viewpoint of victory...
This week Judge Joyce handed out sentences of a year-and-a-day to 16 months in the clink. Even if Minneapolis' Trotskyite mice should win their Supreme Court appeal, their nest had been broken...