Word: belts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists in the difficulty of explaining why the gorilla should not be found elsewhere, and also why a forest belt 750 miles wide should separate the homes of the two known subspecies...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...
...votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often, stiff collars to match. His feet...
...Christie light tank, powered with a Liberty motor, plunged and reared across a churned-up field at 40 m. p. h. With the track-laying belt removed, this tank had gone 69 m. p. h., might go 90 m. p. h. on a good road...
Ladies Leave. Sophie Treadwell. who last season contributed Machinal to Broadway's annals of despair, returns this year with a glancing comedy of love in the psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently...