Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average woman's brain weighs 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...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...
...have purchased your periodical regularly for a long time now, and notice from your last issue that you are transferring your activities to Cleveland, Ohio. While it is your business exclusively, of course, if you desire to locate in the "sticks," the writer believes that you should give an address other than Penton Building, Cleveland, Ohio...
...writer is not especially interested in theo!ogy, but merely opposed to the public being fed on BUNK...
...sober kind Mr. Galsworthy writes, are stately vehicles riding by the public view. Here is a more informal procession of tales and sketches in which, for a very modest fare indeed, one may go forth on 56 different excursions, in many directions and at the many paces that a writer hits up between his crisp youth and reflective middle...