Word: aped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, a pre-"Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is that: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories...
Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises...
...same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text by Truman Moon of Littletown (N. Y.) High School were deleted in toto, and to save argument Author Moon was not even consulted about it. Statements like, "Evolution is a slow...
...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...
...productive of healthy offspring or not, could be induced. If it could, fresh and final evidence would be established that humans and anthropoids belong to a common genus of animal life. To be complete, the hybrid fertilization would have to be attempted upon females of both species, human and ape. Fully formed, healthy offspring, if they resulted, would not be regarded as "missing links," but as living proof that apes and men are species as closely allied as horses and asses which can be hybridized to produce mules or hinnies.* If an ape-man or man-ape hybrid should prove...