Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...charge that he had been peeking in the window of a young woman recently was dropped when it was found that he had been in Flint, Michigan for the last two weeks...
According to recently released figures. Harvard ranks twelfth in the country as far as the number of full-time students is concerned, and twentieth in the number of all resident students. Outclassed by California, Columbia, Minnesota, Illinois, New York U., Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, U. of Washington, Texas, and C. C. N. Y., Harvard has a measly 8,111 full-timers compared with California's 22,122, and Columbia's 14,662. In the whole country, there are 146,224 full-time students, and 1,140,786 resident students...
...mice sing is a scientific mystery. Dr. Slye thought Minnie might have a respiratory condition similar to human râles. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse...
...Dice, president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, secured a singing mouse in 1926, has bred many descendants without producing another real songster. Last spring he reported to the Yale Institute of Human Relations the mouse's superiority to the canary as a musical pet. Observed he: "The musical mouse can be heard only 25 feet, so that the song is less irritating to the nerves and can be escaped easily by moving out of range...