Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banker Giannini is indeed a dominator of dollars; but his quick, kinetic brain must have rejected instantly the nonsense with which L'Impero welcomed him to Rome, last week, as follows...
...bullet no bigger round than a seed-pearl would kill a man if projected through his heart, brain or spinal cord. But martial experience has found 30/100 of an inch to be about the ideal diameter for man-killing bullets. The prize-winning Thompson weapon is .30 calibre...
...schedule-the brain battle between undergraduates of Harvard and Yale Universities. For three hours, one afternoon last week, a picked team of ten Yale seniors wrote answers to the regular examination paper which was given to all Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly...
This, the first annual brain joust between Harvard and Yale tens, was the result of a $125,000 gift of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard. The gift provides a prize of $5,000 worth of books each year to the winning team...
...shark with his leathery snout craving forward for food was "the first vertebrate with a face of typical form." As hands and arms developed and were used for feeding, the need for a reaching, mobile mouth (most antique feature of the face) declined; and at the same time the brain increased in size. Thus man's face grew to take its present form.-Dr. H. H. Briggs of Asheville...