Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having successfully-or apparently so -swept through the country, the Drive-It-Yourself movement has at length invaded New York City also. The movement has resulted from an inspiration in the fertile brain of John Hertz, taxicab king and controller of the Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, May 5, 1924; July 7). It has been incorporated as "The Yellow Drive - It-Yourself" System...
...with football is that it has yielded to the spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this...
Those who hooted had seen this Irishman, Mike McTigue, light-heavyweight champion of the world, retreat all evening before Paul ("Punch 'em") Berlenbach of Astoria, L. I., who followed him with the angry obstinacy of an animal whose insignificant brain was fogged by the fumes of his very adequate blood. They had seen the Irishman's left hand flicker in the face of the assaulting one; they had seen him, in the sixth round, swing his right hand twice to Berlenbach's jaw, at which the latter sank to his knees, his cloudy face even cloudier...
Died. Donn Barber, 54, famed architect; in Manhattan, of tumor of the brain...
...must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...