Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment of bringing up an infant ape under identical conditions with a human infant was reported in outline last year by Winthrop Niles Kellogg, associate professor of psychology at Indiana University (TIME, May 23, 1932). Last week Dr. Kellogg, with his wife collaborating, detailed in a book* their curious stunt, the fun and trouble they...
...lore of the world comes the conception of monsters with which men cannot cope, from which they cannot escape. Science made banal and dreary these dreams, the cinema transforms them with its touchstone of cheapness, and no one can longer cower awed and terrified before apparitions. Kong, the magnificent ape-colossus, the monarch of a surviving world of dinosauri, stands alone...
...behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas in pidgin English. But when Appius and some little boys got their first sight of each other over the garden wall they called him an ape; Appius had a relapse to the jungle. After that Virginia's faith in her experiment became desperate; she began to see, though she would not admit, the tragedy that was coming...
...their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...present Russian effort is to produce creatures who, like mules and catalos (cattle-buffalo), are more primitive than their primevally related parents. If by improbable chance any of the Ivanoff children are fertile, they may yield generations to visibly bridge the gap between man and ape...