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Word: keys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Zoologist Leads Nine Months Trek to Study Agile Gibbons in Siam | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

...Producer Pandro S. Herman with such honesty, intelligence and skill that it betters its original. By abbreviating some of Author Anderson's less appropriate flights of poetry, Anthony Veiller, who wrote the screen play, improved the dialog. RKO's art director, Van Nest Polglase, taking his key from the stage sets designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding company for the Van Sweringens. What the Brothers Van Sweringen got was a 10-year option on a controlling block of Midamerica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Empire's Heirs | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...expression. They are, in a word, appreciations of a man as well as a genius. Without question, his students and associates find much of their admiration based upon the fact that Professor Whitehead teaches no dogma. They are invariably stimulated by his large and embracive theme that the great key to philosophy is individual thinking relating to the world of experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF GREAT THINGS AND ONE MAN | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...antique naturally enough, the imposing engine must be wound with a key. So that there may be a discrimination between day and night, half of the 24 hours on the face are depicted in black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEEZER SELLS APTED SUPER DAY-BY-WEEK TIME-TELLER | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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