Word: linked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colleagues, including Yale's reclusive, ape-observing Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, tried to placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what the consumer wants and then give it to him." Concluded Professor Harold Ernest Burtt of Ohio State University: "When two brands of a certain product are equally good, I think we are justified in taking a fee for telling the sponsors of one of the two how to sell...
Natives of Algeria and Morocco, the apes had run wild on Gibraltar long before Britain's Sir George Rooke snatched it from Spain in 1704. Their presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...
From England, where antiquarians ponder over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...Classics, marks an important advance in the art of making bequests. Instead of subsidizing research on some obscure problems, the Loeb will gives monetary encouragement to the inspiration of the tutors and section men, these who necessarily have the closest contacts with the students. It provides a vital link in the chain of education...
...track and field events at the Stadium. There are pacificists in this country who make great rejoicing every time there is such a contest, an international debate, an exchange professorship, or a worldwide congress of scientists, as if every group that contained citizens from two different nations was a link in the chain to hold back the dogs of war. The newspapers know this and pepper their columns with items about good-will flights and good-will conventions...