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Dr. Bodenstein cut off the circulation of the substance back of the pupa's head.* The head and shoulders metamorphosed normally, the mouth lost its caterpillar jaws and acquired a honey-sucking proboscis, the shoulders sprouted wings. But the body, deprived of the stimulus, remained frozen in the pupal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Half & Half | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

In "Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

Borneo (20th Century-Fox). The late Martin Johnson's last jungle-tripping picture, replete with proboscis monkeys, muddy Borneo rivers and Osa (Mrs. Johnson).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Also Showing | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

"Why I pay those guys 250 bucks apicco every week just to get gags for my radio script", Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schnozzle Cuts Gags from College Cut Ups; Stage Star Shows He Knows All | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last Sea Elephants | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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