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Word: monkeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in the bush of French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...week, when a boatload of animals came in from Singapore, he made a quick round of dealers in Manhattan and Camden, N.J. He especially wanted an orangutan: the $3,500 price tag was prohibitive. Instead he chose a pair of cheetahs ($1,800), a sacred ibis ($65), a patas monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...vaccine, consisting of live virus, is not ready to be tried on human beings. But in its monkey tests it has been 100% successful: after four shots of the vaccine (into the muscles), monkeys proved immune to thousands of times the lethal dose of polio. Their immunity even stood up when the polio virus was injected directly into their brains. The vaccine is the first thus far, the Johns Hopkins researchers hopefully observed, that has produced "solid immunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Against Polio | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Rita Hayworth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, a collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Rita Hay worth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, the collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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