Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...European museums rejoiced at one adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
Sirs: Horrible, nauseating, regrettable-your story in TIME, Aug. 16, of that Russian scientist's experiment on an ape. . . . One of the most primitive laws of Nature -that kind keep with kind-has been absolutely adhered to by all animal life; one specie of beast or bird or fowl does not mate with another ; it is only man who would tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe...
...once said that Vice President Dawes was considering the purchase of a "camelephant." Mrs. Dawes thought he needed exercise, urged him to buy the machine immediately. Before he could do so, the news came that Mr. Coolidge had already installed one. Then Mr Dawes said that he would not ape the President: refused to get himself an electric hobby horse. †"Frigidaire," a machine manufactured by a subsidiary of the potent General Motors Corp...
...Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...