Word: dickeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi has three teeth (two upper incisors, one lower left center). He keeps them clean by the dantan, also necessary for tongue-cleansing, as explained by TIME. Eating no meat, he uses his false teeth on few occasions.-ED. Dickey Underbid...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey (TIME, Oct. 19) intrepid explorer, valiant promoter, is to be applauded for his share in helping deliver the interior of South America into the hands of ''dudes." Ma)' his expensive collection of them see many Jivaros. shoot many monkeys...
...think that Dr. Dickey's $5,000 fee for the trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...
...Dickey who sailed last week with four dude paying-companions, said he could have offered the trip at $1.000. But he offered luxuries-airplane rides, outboard motors, the backing of the State Department. Let less luxury-minded dudes dicker with Duderancher Gill.-ED. "It Isn't Always...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey was back in Manhattan last week from his discovery of the Orinoco's headwaters (TIME, Sept. 28 et ante). Each day he went to his office in the Explorers Club to work on a tart book for which fellow explorers, lounging in the club's red chairs, may denounce him. To be published this winter, the book is a denunciation of expeditions, particularly those to South America. Dr. Dickey considers the aims of most expeditions falsely pretentious, insincere. Men go on most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results...