Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientists representing different branches, contributed to a symposium on recent researches in the origin of man. The upshot of it was that man's nearest living relative is the gorilla, though man is not directly descended from him. Dr. Frederick Tilney, the neurologist, comparing cross-sections of the brains of apes and monkeys, showed that the size and complexity of the brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight...
...than the Cro-Magnon race of Western Europe, 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, whom Henry Fairfield Osborn declares to have been the mental equals of college men of today. The Los Angeles finds, named the Haverty group in honor of the Irish contractor who found them, have brain cases as large as modern men; their last molar ("wisdom") teeth are underdeveloped as in civilized men; their stature was extraordinary, reaching seven feet in height...
...fecund mind of William Jennings Bryan brought forth a brain child, preconceived some years ago by the late Theodore Roosevelt. Now, according to Mr. Bryan, the public is ready to receive this plan...
...before Parliament a proposal to construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will be placed on public...
...Diana." Why is Mr. Mcfadden chosen for this purpose rather than any other famed publisher-William R. Hearst, or Cyrus Curtis, for example? The answer is that Mr. McFadden is a specialist in physical culture. He owns Physical Culture and Beautiful Womanhood, not to mention True Story, Metropolitan, Brain Power, Movie Weekly. According to advertisement, his "God-driven pen" has made millions think. So he is going to the Michigan Industrial Exposition to help the workingman and his family. He will give daily lectures on health. With him will be a troup of famous strong men to perform feats...