Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replaced the ovaries of Nora, mature chimpanzee, with a woman's ovaries, and then succeeded in; impregnating her with human sperms by artificial means, Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris has been the subject of much lay and scientific speculation. Nora's baby, biologically human, but prenatally an ape, was to be born in January. In August she was reported "progressing normally." Then no more bulletins . . . until last week. Pressed for information, Dr. Voronoff made answer...
...consternation yesterday of the paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...
Serving the Emergency Fleet Corp. as consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
...ape one's betters is edifying but to express one's own personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation...
Minister of Education Stefan Raditch, obstreperous leader of the Croat Opposition, called by his enemies "the political ape-clown" (TIME, Oct. 25), sought once more to disrupt the Cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch last week by a wanton flamboyance...