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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twice as big as a horse should be the size of Margaret F. Maclntyre, 23, physiology assistant at Goucher College (Baltimore) if only her rate of breathing were considered. The bigger an animal, the slower it breathes. A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only...
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...Grimsby, England, the crew of the schooner Gladys swore that their black cat, frightened by a tempest, had turned white overnight...
...Croydon, England, cat show, one H. C. Brooke exhibited a cat which was completely redhaired...
...Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing of the form from the fundamental block") has caused many a contemporary to imitate...