Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savants and laymen alike, Great Britain's Oxford University is one of the greatest capitals of learning in the English-speaking world. U. S. universities, awed by its 700-year-old cultural traditions, are willing, even eager to acknowledge and ape its preeminence. To such Oxford-worshippers came a shock last week in the form of a book describing life at Oxford as a little learning and a great deal of beer & skittles...
...1920s signs began to appear on cinema theatres: "Twenty Degrees Cooler Inside. BRRH!" Cooling Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre in 1925 cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier...
...primate collections include skins, skeletons, and preserved material, particularly of gibbons, langurs, macaques, and lemurs from Siam and British North Borneo. Each ape, monkey, or lemur that was collected has been carefully measured and weighed before being skinned, dissected, or embalmed...
...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...
...whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors of the existence of an A-rating student named Cuthbert Gleep...