Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the biggest crowds of all will go to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, a 79-year-old institution rich in legends of escaped animals (two of its sea lions once flopped into a North Clark Street saloon), and one of the chief ornaments of Chicago's...
At the head of this crowd-catching public institution (financed by the Chicago Park Board), is one of the fastest rising zoo directors in the country: lean, grey-haired R. Marlin Perkins, who has devoted most of his 42 years to studying, mothering, training, understanding, exploiting and explaining specimens of...
"Intelligence Park." Perkins' job, like those of all his zoo-keeping colleagues, is solidly founded on the eternal attraction that the animal kingdom has for man. The zoo, as such, is an ancient institution. Like the Fourth of July firecracker, it was invented by the Chinese. They built their...
The Truman Doctrine had been addressed primarily to the Russians, who understood it perfectly. It meant "Stop Shoving," and the shoving at least became a bit gentler in Greece, Turkey, France, Italy. But Europe, hungry and jittery, was inclined to think the U.S. was "getting tough." Even that notably un...
It was an apple-green breastplate, about six inches wide, carved in the 9th Century. Cut into the jade was the figure of a priest, or ruler, presiding over a circle of deities (see cut). To make it, the Mayan artist had labored with wooden bow drills, and smoothed his...