Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...William Webster Ellsworth, of New Hartford, Conn., onetime (1913-16) President of the Century Publishing Co., is no close relative of Pole-flying Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, June 1 et seq., SCIENCE). He does his exploring in U. S. schools. For 30 years he has been mounting school and university rostrums lecturing on topics "from [Playwright] Moliere to [Poet] Edna...
Henry Kitchell Webster, novelist Litt.D...
Adoniram Judson Sidney Lanier Matthew F. Maury James Otis William Penn Wendell Phillips Paul Revere Henry H. Richardson Benjamin Rush Philip H. Sheridan Benjamin Thompson Henry David Thoreau Noah Webster Walt Whitman
...Seldes, in his book "The Seven Lively Arts," and Mr. Seldes has now stretched an arm into limbo and brought back the comic strip, which has long been devoured avidly by children, and surreptitiously by grown-ups. It seems that comic strips, when done by such competent artists as Webster, Briggs, and Rube Goldberg give a more realistic picture of bits of American life than any of the modern novels of unromantic detail have done...