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Show (t?4 Wide, hovdi iu il By FRANKLIN J. MEIN'E Editor, The American Peoples Encyclopedia TT MUST be that babies are smarter than we think. The first word the average baby speaks, that obviously has reference to some specific object or situation, usually occurs at ten or eleven months. After actual talking gets well under way, the vocabulary may increase rather rapidly, 500 or 600 words year; as many as 1,000 or more with alert children.-By children.-By the time the child Is six yean old he Is likely to have a vocabulary vocabu-lary of 2,500 or 3,000 words. II has been pointed out that the word "mama," with varying inflections, may mean "mama give me," "mama look," or "there is mama." ma-ma." Such a single word sentence is called a "rheme.' Man outdoes the sea animal, whether It be a tuna or green crab, in its ability to adapt to temperature. tempera-ture. Most sea animals can tolerate only a small range In temperature. tempera-ture. Only those relatively few sea animals that can tolerate temperature tem-perature ' changes of 10 degrees Fahrenheit can remain in temperate temper-ate zones. All others must migrate mi-grate or die. Man can withstand temperatures which range from 136 degrees above to 90 degrees below zero. |