Word: gibbons
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Special attention will be paid to the behavior and physical structure of gibbons, which live in great clans in the jungles of northern Siam. There is strong evidence that man and other higher primates have evolved from a gibbonoid stock, and therefore the gibbon becomes a key animal in the interpretation of man's social and physical evolution...
Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...
...spent 20 fruitful years in the laboratory without closing his eyes to the classics, Dr. Conant has small patience with those who complain that research must not be overemphasized at the expense of teaching. To that charge he likes to cite the account by Edward Gibbon of the Greek scholars in loth Century Constantinople...
...Union (Macmillan, $2) was nearly finished when Pennsylvania's onetime Representative James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point of potential power. . . ." The remainder of the volume...
...boys. Dos Passos was constantly on the point of leaving Harvard but never quite got around to it. Though he graduated cum laude, he thinks he got little out of college, regards his four years there as largely wasted. Like his father, he is a self-made literate. Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire was his adolescent Bible...