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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 last week did the general public learn of her strange case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Breather | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Breather | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Esther is the grand champion shorthorn cow in Argentina's forty-first national live stock exhibition and is more truly a national figure than any Miss America has ever been, with her name on every tongue . in Argentine, including the furthest frontiers and hamlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queer Deer | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Married. Helen Wills, champion lady tennis player; and Frederick S. Moody Jr., San Francisco broker; at Berkeley, Cal. At the simple ceremony witnessed by only eight people, Miss Wills wore a tailored suit, was unattended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Married. Representative Frederick Haskell Dominick of South Carolina; and Miss Alva M. Seger, daughter of Representative & Mrs. George Nicholas Seger of New Jersey; at Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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