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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Single great ape births in captivity are rare. As far as Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale professor of psychobiology and director of the Experiment Station, can discover from records, Mona is the first great ape of any kind ever known to produce more than one baby at a time.* He has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ape Twins | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Institution in London. He had been pained to discover that a portion of the Church pension fund came from $50,000 worth of Vickers, Ltd. stock. No less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fresh Harvest | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

His Excellency, Hans Luther, German Ambassador to Washington, spent a hectic 20 minutes, at Harvard yesterday rushing through the Germanic Museum, being carefully protected from the influence of an exhibition by Maria Adams, who recently moved from Germany because she preferred not to live there any longer and hurrying through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUTHER MAKES FLYING INSPECTION OF HARVARD | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

For a man who is confessedly musical, Mr. Ballantine has a sizeable fund of knowledge about other things. When he does state a fact which lies outside his field, it is always annoying to discover that it is correct. Perhaps the final answer to this Professor of Music lies in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Portraits | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

Scouts were sent out the Liberal Club meeting to discover whether that organization was also in on the flendish schemes but these liaison officers were hastily expelled from the Lowell House Common Room where the meeting was being held. A special meeting of the dance committee was called by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soldiers and Sailors Given Scare by Reports That NSL Is Out for Blood | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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