Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans view it in its classical light. The ancient Greek meaning, and the optic adopted by modern-day Germans, is that the Gymnasium is the harmonic unity between the well-developed body, the brain, and the soul...
...Frederick F. Fuller, an inventor whose brain deals weirdly and intelligently with interlocking cog wheels, made a contract with the National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured...
...being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after all what...
...main dish, there are open differences over the fixings. Senator George of Georgia stipulates that the Democratic Party shall "refuse to make any alliance with radical forces." Senator Bruce of Maryland concurs with him that the confidence of legitimate business must not be sacrificed through compromise with the "creak-brain economic vagaries of Bryan west". On the other hand, Senator King of Utah, conservative but none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska, stresses the necessity of an out-and-out liberalism with particular...
Tremont--"No, No, Nanette" with lulia Sanderson and Donald Brain, at 8.00: Tea for two at forty...