Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other clay figures showed animals mounted on wheels. This discovery thrilled archeologists. They had thought that the wheel, basic device of mechanical civilization, was unknown in the New World. But the La Ventas had wheels some 2,000 years ago, or had at least seen representations of them. How they learned about wheels, and why their knowledge died with them, remains a fascinating mystery...
...boondoggling. A recent issue included a report on a new sport-mouseboat racing -the invention of a ten-year-old anonymous moppet. Necessary paraphernalia: 18-inch racing boats, mice, a bathtub or pond. In racing, the mice propel the boats by walking a treadmill attached to a small paddle wheel. Said Hobbies: "No cruelty is imposed on the creature since experience shows that mice derive much enjoyment from their wheel-turning activity...
Meanwhile, in Bath, a National Wheel Racing Mouse Club was organized. Founder Laurie Jackson had already enrolled 48 members, all adults who presumably could be trusted not to ginger up their mice. For a race track they had chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice...
...lighted corners too, and many times horns are honked continually out of exuberance. Said one philosophical Mexican: "It is a form of national egomania. For so long we were without such wonderful material possessions. Now if a man has an automobile or at least can sit behind the wheel of one, he wants to advertise it to the world, just as some of us who have electric refrigerators place them in the best part of the house...
...comedy routines. Place: a Manhattan hospital. Occasion: convalescence from the amputation of his tumorous right leg. Fey-and-wistful Savo, now 54, was keeping his chin up. "I've always kept it up," said he, "ever since I was eight years old, when I balanced a 48-pound wheel...