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Word: monkeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march of the race from monkey to man. . . . Are mechanics who dream at their workbenches of the glories of the past likely to cherish destructive impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Placating Mr. Hearst | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...returned the books to the publisher, how Dr. Sprowls had protested to President Morgan. According to Dr. Sprowls the President had replied: " I believe in evolution more than you do, Dr. Sprowls, but it is necessary to soft pedal evolution because Tennessee is as likely to have a 'monkey' legislature as Kentucky." Thereupon Dr. Sprowls was dismissed. He told the trustees that there was no question of his reinstatement-he had secured a position with the University of Idaho, and would not return to Tennessee if asked. He asked, however, that the other six professors be reinstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Tennessee | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

Voronoff puts his patient and a healthy young monkey side by side on operating tables. A local anaesthetic is given the man, and a general one to the monkey. The incisions are made, and one of the monkey's gonads is sliced into six pieces thin enough for the interstitial cells of the patient quickly to interpenetrate them. In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Voronoff and Steinach | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIFTING THE SANDS OF TIME | 5/23/1923 | See Source »

...first to commence the ardent one-act struggle for the bays? Who, but the Little Theatre of Bridgeport in The Rut, a drama by Sara Sherman Pryor? From the rising of the curtain upon that production on Monday to the falling of it upon the last scene of The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, produced by the Montclair Players of Montclair on Friday, how the gallant conflict raged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Groups | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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