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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...