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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...central point during the summer vacation. One exchange in particular sets forth in glowing colors the benefits, mental and physical, to be derived therefrom, nearly as follows: the pleasure of seeing and knowing personally the editors of so many papers; the relief of the journey to the wearied editorial brain; the lasting friendships we might thus form; the knowledge we might gain of each other; the "dignity" it would give college journalism; and last, the power resulting from unity of purpose and action, - for, as it conclusively asserts, "there is strength in unity." It also suggests St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...needed no doctor to tell me that his brain was most sadly confused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...keep him from getting excited or his brain from becoming confused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he has read, - only with a vague idea of disconnected subjunctives and confused optatives floating through his troubled and wearied brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY RUSKINISM. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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