Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges are pending against them. The three had just been indicted by the Federal Government for using the mails to extort, were about to be prosecuted for robbing an oil man of $26. Their life terms in theory had thereby become life terms in fact. The trio: James Kirk, brain; Roy Williams and Larry Kerrigan, brawn, in the abduction of William F. Gettle of Arcadia (TIME...
...SOME little atom may have taken, in some tiny crossroad of my brain, the wrong turning. Some infinitesimal dead leaf may have lodged itself, in my thought's stream, against some infinitesimal twig, and the consequences may prove incalculable...
...tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog...
...presence of the President and the Corporation there was deposited in the Peabody Museum yesterday the body of the sole student discovered studying during the Reading Period. Scientific societies had been struggling for his brain, and when it was opened it formed one of the great links in the progress of the morally and mentally delinquent. When the student was discovered, he pleaded with the constabulary not to reveal his secret. --Yale News
...Williams with a diploma, four college prizes which he went out for because he needed the money, and not nearly enough education. Four years at Union Theological Seminary and several more at Johns Hopkins to get a Ph. D. in U. S. diplomatic his tory helped to fill his brain with proper learning. Thereupon he successively preached, free-lanced for magazines, helped edit World Outlook, publicized a Methodist Centenary drive, boomed an Inter-Church World Movement, lectured on history at Johns Hopkins, wrote three books (The Democratic Movement in Asia, Americans in Eastern Asia, Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese...