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Word: toronto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing that Castang also could talk with apes, an enterprising Toronto Star reporter went out to the Riverdale Zoo, had a keeper install a handset telephone in the cage of chimpanzees George & Josephine, put through a long distance call to Castang's Chicago hotel. With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Chats with Chimpanzees | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...when his British father married a second wife. Next he became a licensed pharmacist in Belleville. Ont., beat the bass drum in the local Salvation Army. The president of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., helped him through that institution and its Bible Training School. Ordained a Baptist minister in Toronto, Robinson received a D.D. and doctorate in psychology from the College of Divine Metaphysics in Indianapolis. Beyond teaching Sunday school and helping at evangelistic meetings while earning his living as a druggist, "Doc" Robinson (as his friends now call him) never preached, soon came to disbelieve Christian doctrine. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Toronto 6, Montreal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Intercollegiate Hockey League | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

League Standings: W L T Pts. McGill 4 0 0 8 Toronto 2 0 1 5 Dartmouth 2 1 0 4 HARVARD 2 1 0 4 Queens 2 0 0 4 Princeton 1 4 0 2 Yale 0 2 1 1 Montreal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Intercollegiate Hockey League | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Standings: W L T Pts. McGill 3 0 0 6 Harvard 1 0 0 2 Toronto 1 0 0 2 Queens 1 0 0 2 Princeton 1 2 0 2 Yale 0 1 0 0 Dartmouth 0 1 0 0 Montreal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Intercollegiate Hockey League | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

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