Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds may be 20 to one that you are no more related to him than is any one else in town...
...Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke...
Says Historian Conklin: "I once heard a distinguished physiologist say that there are two ways to gain recognition, either brag or fight. It seems to me that Schleiden did both...
...director of athletics at Harvard is a fine fellow. He didn't brag last year or the year before, nor is he crying at present. He makes his report and then continues his work...
Neither during the Civil War nor in Reconstruction times were the successes of the Union forces in Texas anything to brag about. In fact, with its post-Civil War collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast...