Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever a great Frenchman dies, the first thing that seems to be done is to cut out his brain, weigh it and forever after discuss it. They did it to Gambetta. They have done it to Anatole France, the distinguished novelist who died last year (TIME, Oct. 20, BOOKS). The weight of his brain was 1,017 grams, whereas the average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grams. Some scientist declared that it is now established that the profundity of intellectual power is not dependent on physical size. Others contended that, in M. France's case...
...know, perhaps, that Borotra, a young man who has never permitted his sport to interfere with his pleasure, had broken the monotony of the Wimbledon tournament by hurried week-end trips to Paris by airplane, returned somewhat pale. No young man who does that sort of thing can have much chance of winning the Wimbledon tournament, as Lacoste demonstrated...
These facts were set forth last week in the Protestant press. For one thing, Mr. Stearns had once possessed a vigorous Protestant Episcopal faith; had, in fact, graduated from the General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, became rector of Christ Church, Sheffield, Mass. A "convert to Romanism,"** he had then gone to a Jesuit college...
...another thing, the new librarian is the son of Frank W. Stearns, Congregationalist storekeeper, mentor of the President...
...game, these Indians made a great show. Fifty brown grooms in prismatic turbans, 50 ponies around the field while the band played. Watching Americans grinned, thought of the parades of the Veiled Prophets (see Page 25) which they had often witnessed in the U. S. That sort of thing was admirable for Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, Realtors and the like, but, after all, it was not polo. The game began. The Indians, with languid ease, swamped the Americans...