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Word: gnaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically every geologic epoch, all of whom share a taste for cave folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan's Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead, he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like pictures celebrated "20 Years of Bill Gropper" with a show of his recent paintings at the A. C. A. Gallery, a Gropper monograph (36 reproductions, text by self-taught fellow Artist Joe Jones), a rousing rally in Mecca Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 20 Years of Gropper | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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