Word: gibbon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are "fancy spellings" in your opinion? Is plain, correct spelling to be considered "fancy"? Why did you sit Reader Gibbon down so hard [TIME...
...GIBBON...
...Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan of Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter...
...Gibbon", Professor Elton, Harvard 6, English...
...studies of Dr. Dudley J. Morton, of the Yale Department of Surgery and the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, who showed to the satisfaction of his scientific audience that man is directly descended from an upright, walking anthropoid. The lowest form of living ape, the gibbon, is the only animal that runs on two feet like man. Other apes hop and leap or go to all fours when on the ground, and are never more than semierect in natural pose. Therefore, he concludes, their present posture has been acquired...