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Word: monkeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the monkey wrench that the Business School vacation has thrown into the tournament schedules, Fradd hopes to get as much started as possible this week. On the brighter side of the picture on the courts yesterday, as far as non-competing amateurs was concerned, was the unaccustomed availability of courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Slates Show Uneven Registrations | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: A Look at the Paper | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...What would you think if you had been descended from a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...monkey, Papa? But I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...suppose it was proved to you that you were descended from a monkey-what would you think about it? What would you feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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