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...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, the lack of weight was more than counterbalanced by strange types of convolutions separated by deep sulci (grooves...
...Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
Prince of Bourbon was as clean a horse as you could wish to see-small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift...
Robert Ridgway: A mighty engineer who controls the transit of a huge metropolis, and has built tunnel and aqueduct under deep rivers...
...step like the crack of a whip." He relates how he still practises medicine with offices in the antique building that houses the Marion Star, where "the old gentleman, either sitting straight as an arrow at his desk when he fancies the posture, or sprawling down in a deep chair when he feels that way about it, reads and answers the scores and even hundreds of letters that pour in upon him daily...