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Word: monkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finger doing fine. Monkey meat is plenty tough but ah!-the spareribs. Man is a four-dimensional animal because he can project his personality into space by his creative powers. Woman is three-dimensional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...that half that art is teamwork. Says he: "There isn't a tank man alive who could operate a tank by himself, and there isn't a tank crew that could keep a tank operating without the help of the last little man with the last little monkey wrench. They all know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Wind, Sand and Steel | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film out of the Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent than the rest of the cast, the pet monkey really stars. With his ability to steal pancakes only equalled by his talent in throwing apples, the half-pint ape has no trouble in making a monkey out of Haley...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...fell he rushed through the air to North Africa to lead the victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Birthday | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...reasoning, I picked a fundamental trade in one of the defense industries most likely to be doing business as usual when the show is over and the monkey dead. I am a boilermaker's helper at Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, Pa. I like it ... and I seem to have some talent for it. I've lost some fat around the waist and between the ears. And I'm a little proud of the modest bit I'm doing in our war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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