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Word: brained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally I heard that he was doing very queer things. They seemed to me a sign that his brain was getting weak.... I wrote him a letter, to bring him to his senses. After that I never saw him again, but there was no quarrel. He often sent me presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Costly Case | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

When M. Pashitch returned from his conference with King Alexander he went straight to bed. Later he tossed and moaned, became unconscious. His physicians, hurriedly summoned, found that an artery in the brain of M. Pashitch had burst. There was no hope. The right half of the brain was already paralyzed. To relieve the blood pressure and permit M. Pashitch to recover consciousness for a few minutes external bleeding was induced by an incision. For an instant he rallied, recognized his daughter and whispered something as she bent over him. Then Death came in a red mist. Jugoslavia had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: National Crisis | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed; 'The only corners I know of in Baldwin are the four corners on every Baldwin stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/3/1926 | See Source »

...void of Katya's silences came Alenka, peasant wench. But one hurried seance with her left him disgusted, horrified. Then, finally, came a letter from Katya. She was going away, as a mistress. "Don't write to me, my dear love, it is useless!" Mitya shot his brain pan off. The Author. Ivan Bunin, 56, writes with ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy mouzhik, Dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Knouts of Silence | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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