Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the gods in the machine have been leaning backwards in their efforts to prove it not so. At any rate, it can now be said, with the movie critics that this is not for the kiddies. If you want to find out about man's relation to the ape look up "evolution" in the encyclopedia and be done with...
...highest grades as a general rule, was his comment, go to the student who is the best "ape", to the one who can best imitate his teacher...
...mothers. The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling. The giraffes, a bull and two cows loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life, the thunderous speech of nature...
Famous as a leader of the so-called "Gesielt School' in psychology, Dr. Kohier is the author of a book called "The Mentality of Apes" which has had a wide circulation in psychological circles. Dr. Kohier is chairman of the departments of philosphy and psychology at the University of Berlin where he founded the Gestelt School. More by necessity than choice, Dr. Kohier took up the psychological study of apes. It was while he was interned on the Canary Islands that he did the research work in ape-study which resulted in the publication of his book...
...Germany's Reuss-Gera Prison, one Schaarschmidt, deprived of tools, chewed his way out through solid oak bars. When captured his teeth were found mere stumps, his jaws ape-size...