Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman for a period of years accentuates a man's feminine characteristics. Few men can resist the trend. Excessive "mothering" or "fathering" a child greatly influences adult sex expressions...
...bagpipe was the forerunner of the pipe-organ. Some early man found that by blowing into a bag with several ramifying reeds attached he could produce many notes at once. That and the "drone," a bell-ended pipe attached to the bag which sounds an uninterrupted bass note, are the main characteristics of the bagpipe. It has a limited range of notes, is very difficult to play. The bag is held under the piper's left arm, the blowpipe which feeds the bag is held in his mouth, his fingers play along the "chaunter," the melody pipe punctuated with lateral...
...double row of false house fronts. Targets swung in the gaping windows and doors, popped up and down in the street. Five keen-eyed Portland, Ore., constables shot them down like fugitives, scored 41 points out of a possible 50, won the match. A four-man team match of the slow and rapid pistol firing was won by New York City policemen...
Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute...
...lightning had struck the plane, as it struck Major John Wood's plane at Needles, killing him. Relatives prayed for the passengers: Mrs. Corina A. Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond, T. A. T. clerk at Glendale, Cal.; Amasa B. McGaffey, rich Albuquerque lumberman; Harris Livermore, Boston shipping man; Mark M. Campbell, Cincinnati paper salesmanager; William Henry Beers of Manhattan, editor of Golf Illustrated. The crew included Pilot Jesse B. Stowe, Co-Pilot Edwin F. A. Dietel, Courier C. F. Canfield...