Crossword-Solution: YERKES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| YERKES | anagram | KERSEY, KEYSER, REKEYS |
We have 7 clues for the answer “YERKES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| He founded a famed observatory. | 1 answer |
| He wrote "The Great Apes." | 1 answer |
| Observatory at Chicago U. | 1 answer |
| Observatory at U. of Chicago. | 1 answer |
| Wisconsin observatory | 1 answer |
| U.S. observatory | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN observatory | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCZEEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with YERKES (5)
Yerkes's "Psychological Examining in the United States Army"(1) in which we are informed that the psychological examination of the drafted men indicated that nearly half--47.3 per cent.--of the population had the mentality of twelve-year-old children or less--in other words that they are morons.
Yerkes controlled mayors and city councils; he even extended his influence into the state government, controlling governors and legislatures.
They openly sold Yerkes the use of the streets for cash and constantly blocked the efforts which an infuriated populace made for reform.
Yerkes purchased the old street railway lines, lined his pockets by making contracts for their reconstruction, issued large flotations of watered stock, heaped securities upon securities and reorganization upon reorganization and diverted their assets to business in a hundred ingenious ways.
The fact that, after having reduced the railway system of Chicago to financial pulp and physical dissolution, he finally unloaded the whole useless mass, at a handsome personal profit, upon his old New York friends, Whitney and Ryan, and decamped to London, where he carried through huge transit enterprises, clearly demonstrated that Yerkes was a buccaneer of no ordinary caliber.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2013).