Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella...
...hundred entries have beet received from the teams in the high school race, in which 19 teams have been entered. They are Oxford High. Worcester High School of Commerce, Providence La Salle, Providence Technical Rogers High, Westerly High. Arlington High.. Schenectady High. Woburn High. Stoneham High. Weymouth High. Brain tree High. Quincy High, Newton High Concord High. North High of Worcester Winchester High. Beverly High, and Newton High. Schenectady High, winners last year, will be favorites again to day, although the Arlington harriers of Coach William McCarthy are considered to have a good chance. Five preparatory schools have entered...
...school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...
...best spot to shoot an elephant is in the brain, between...
...year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough to say that not only could no member of the present student body meet those tests, but that no member of its faculty could. That does not mean that the human brain is no longer able to grasp such erudition. It is merely a comment on the changing standards...