Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bargain. In Chicago, Zoologist Robert Bean announced that the price of an elephant, which was $4,000 last year, has gone down...
...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...
Babe Ruth died, and true grief dropped into public bathos; a coal miner's daughter nicknamed "Bobo" married into the Rockefeller clan; Manhattan's nickel subway fare went to a dime; the year's most popular book on human behavior was by a zoologist named Kinsey...
...work, a dry, detailed classification, is not only ponderous but important. Said one expert: "This work doesn't tell you everything about rodents, but no zoologist could start work on rodents without reference...
...Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he said, the book seriously discusses sexual experiences recollected from early childhood without taking into account all the forces, like dreams, that can distort children's memories...