Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, a man who, in spite of lack of physical superiority, makes himself a fair player through study, practice, and good brain work, may often prove an excellent coach. 'Bill' Reid is a good example of this. With no extraordinary physical endowment, he had the mental ability to make himself a good player, and later he had a genius for analysis and instruction in such a way that the average man understood not only the what, but, vastly more important, the how and why of his position. Reid was a human dynamo, and spared neither his men nor himself...
...Then, too, a comedian must have a profound understanding of human nature, he must understand the psychology of the human brain. I find that one of the most effective ways to get a good laugh is to produce a rapid change from one emotion to another, from tears to laughter for example...
Seņor Capablanca was born in Cuba in 1888 with the strategies of knights and pawns apparently engraved by dry point upon his infant brain. He lisped in gambits; at a period when most children are teething, he was teaching his father the Ruy Lopez, and while still a child he became primus of the Habana Chess Club. Only the insistence of a medical man induced him, at the age of eight, to take a holiday and go to school. He went through college, where he interested himself in science, history, art, music, sport. Then he began to play chess...
...playwright arrives at this affirmative through the process of presenting a starving inventor who suddenly sees a chance to finance his brain-child and make many millions. The whole is rather elementary, rather energetically played, and quite unimportant...
...assistant in a course need only conduct an exhaustive review. Nobody will go to it, of course, for it will be broadcasted. Students stay at home and retire early, headphones in place. Next morning they awake refreshed and go forth to examinations with every fact stowed away in the brain. Then there will be an end of college failures, for every one knows, theory to the contrary notwithstanding, that examinations test only facts. Parents will he delighted. Students will need to study only twice a year, and them in one's sleep. And withal, the Dean's list will read...