An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TRAVERS
Trav"ers, adv. Etym: [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, Ã travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.]
Definition: Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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