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Word: miceli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike in 1919, but both men described the parting as amicable. In the ensuing years Sam had nearly 30 resounding hits including Rain (1922), Icebound (1923), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), Dinner At Eight (1932), You Can't Take It With You (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), Lady in the Dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Production Closes | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sucklings' Cancer | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Bittner used two families of mice; in Family A, almost all the mice for many generations developed cancer of the breast; in Family B, cancer seldom occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sucklings' Cancer | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Bittner took a number of newborn mice from Family A away from their cancerous mothers, set them to suckle immune mothers in Family B; then he set babies from the immune family to the breasts of females in the cancerous family. (None of these "wet nurses" had yet developed tumors.) Result: the young mice switched their cancer tendencies. Those who came from healthy stock developed cancer; those who were ordinarily doomed to cancer remained healthy. Their offspring were also healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sucklings' Cancer | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness. He looks up, not down. It is possible to foresee a bright future for him if mice don't consume him first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Rodents at Work | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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