Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...
...scribbling answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
...brain contest does nothing else, it must serve to emphasize those things for which the college exists. The world today is prone to deny the devotion of college to a serious purpose and ideal; it has come to look upon college at its worst as a professional athletic center, and at its best as a place where the men attending do anything except study...
...preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact that each is a great University, proceeding along somwhat different lines. Each aims to produce men who will lead world thought not those who can score highest in a three-hour examination offering scant room for original effort...