Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Park announced that, as he had anticipated, the two dozen were utterly unharmed by Dr. Brodie's vaccine and, according to monkey tests, definitely immune to infantile paralysis. At once he inoculated four dozen more children. Periodically during the next year he will test the blood of all the children just to make utterly sure that the immunity continues...
Expertly condensed by Gladys Unger and directed by Stuart Walker, the task of preserving the vitality of Great Expectations rests principally on the cast. Most memorable contributions to a gallery of 19th Century human oddities are made by Henry Hull, as monkey-faced Magwitch; Florence Reed, as monstrous old Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt as cold-hearted Estella. Good shot: Magwitch eating cold porkpie in a graveyard...
...Monkey Dominance. Because the University of Wisconsin's A. H. Maslow was curious about dominance in primates, 15 pairs of monkeys, each pair of the same sex, were introduced to each other for the first time. In every case one of the two took instant command of the situation, reduced the other to submission. The bully got 97% of the food, started all but a negligible percentage of the fights, never cowered, seldom retreated. To this treatment the browbeaten monkey responded by passivity, cringing, flight, or female sex behavior, regardless of the sex of the pair...
Last week Professor Kolmer publicly staked his professional reputation and promised to stake the life of his two children on the efficacy of his monkey mixture to prevent infantile paralysis. Said he: "I believe that it can safely and successfully be administered to children and other human beings...
After two years of research at Yale, Dr. Solly Zuckerman, Oxford zoologist, last week reported that the blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...