HOW MANY WORDS DO YOU KNOW?
A scientist, 'has Wrt making calculations about tho human memory. A child can. remember about 500 words and a grown-up 20,000. There have been rare cases, such as that ° „'r™:" :a, y' wno ™»'ombered the names of plants. Certain Hindus are able to recite without stopping tho 10,000 versos of ono of_ their holy books. And as for musicians, everybody knows thai; many of thorn can' play for a whole day different pieces without any .music.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 151, 23 December 1921, Page 15
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82HOW MANY WORDS DO YOU KNOW? Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 151, 23 December 1921, Page 15
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