Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fidelity. Declared hoary War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the weightiest British analysis of last week: "The League offered Mussolini nothing which he could have accepted without being laughed off the Italian stage-and as for talk of sanctions, II Duce knew the exact weight of the brain and fist of every man with whom he was dealing, and having carefully scanned the figures on the balance, he decided it was a safe chance to defy them...
...difference between Ancient Greece and Modern Greece is 2,000 years of intermarriage with Romans, Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs, Sicilian Normans, Franks, Serbs, Venetians, Albanians, Turks. In modern Greek politics, the republican traditions of ancient Greece have become primarily a dream in the brain of Greece's ex-Grand Old Man Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos whose revolution of republicans and Greek islanders was smashed last spring by monarchical mainlanders (TIME, March 25). Since then Greek politicians have been scrambling on the monarchist bandwagon but always with reservations about actually recalling Greece's ex-King George...
...Haven, Conn., most skillfully and generously performed; I believe that a study of my head after my death may serve the advancement of science, and I therefore direct that it be severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland...
...unfortunate that a man with Smith's unbelievable mentality should be wasting his time on mere college students. There are bigger places in this country for men like Smith. It now transpires that the President has been wasting his time. Brain trusts are unwieldy things at best, and still have not the wisdom of one G. H. Smith, "Hoping you will find this original service of mine of some real aid to you, I am, Very sincerely yours, G. H. Smith." "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all h knew...
Harvard should have at least four years of it, otherwise the girls will be getting ahead of us. The women are evidently going to supply the brawn while Harvard supplies the brains. But that is hardly brain-worthy of Harvard. The Vassar girl was right when she saw the humpbacked undergraduate body at Harvard and remarked that "Harvard men look so stoopid...