anthropoid
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The novel reimagines Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the plot to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, through the eyes of a writer-narrator who is uneasy about this own “ignominious transformation” of history into literature.
From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2015
Anthropoid monkeys evolved from prosimians during the Oligocene Epoch.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The Kelloggs took a bungalow close to the Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station at Orange Park, Fla. and thereafter Gua and Donald, who was 10 months old, lived precisely similar lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Professor Yerkes announced in Science that the State of Florida has granted a charter of incorporation to the "Anthropoid Experiment Station of Yale University" at Orange Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is an "all-pervading similitude of structure," between man and the Anthropoid Apes, though it is certain that it is not from any living form that he took his origin.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
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