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Yerkes

[ yur-keez ]

noun

  1. Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
  2. Robert Mearns [murnz], 1876–1956, U.S. psychologist and psychobiologist: pioneered in studies of the great apes.


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“He has already returned Tunisia to autocracy,” said Ms Yerkes.

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A psychologist at Emory University in Atlanta and a research scientist at the school’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Professor de Waal objected to the common usage of the word “instinct.”

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“It has been frustrating to see this lack of teeth to any of the U.S. responses,” Yerkes said.

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Daniels was doing a production of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” when veteran stuntman Bob Yerkes taught him to juggle and walk on a high wire.

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“It’s unsettling,” said Jennifer Yerkes, a 30-year resident who manages Friday Harbor Seafood, a small shop that sits by the water.

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