Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 43 ounces as compared to about 48 for a man's brain. The world's record brain weight, 74 ounces, was that of Turgeniev, Russian writer. There are records of a few 60-ounce brains, and quite a few in the 50's (including Thackeray, Daniel Webster, Napoleon). But more significant than brain weight are the convolutions of the brain - more convolutions mean more surface area, and the brain thinks on its surface...
...Fleming, Ky., was reported last week to be dying an old beech tree, upon which, long ago, Daniel Boone cut an inscription: "Har is whar I killed...
Later, Pope Pius, a Canadian pilgrimate and 60,000 of the faithful knelt in veneration and beatified the tortured priests whose sufferings were blazoned on the banners. The beatified: John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Gamier, Noel Charbanel, Jean de la Lande, René Goupil and Isaac Jogues...
Dorothy Karrick of Detroit went down after "statistician," and Mary Daniel of Hartford, Conn., after "valu-ing." Helen Fischer of Akron, Ohio, missed "moribund," the last word before "gladiolus...
Thus does Daniel Guggenheim turn from the bowels of the earth to the heights of the heavens to do for the air what his family has done for the ground...