Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pseudo-science ? the brain-weight theory of white superiority to the Negro. Scientists have exploded the theory that the heaviest brain is necessarily the most highly developed. But the idea persists in the popular mind...
...quite understand the mystification of our French friends, who love all things clean cut and logical, in contemplating an arrangement of this kind which no logical brain could ever have created. The idea of States belonging to one political system, and yet having such elasticity that disagreement over matters of foreign policy is not altogether excluded, would be incomprehensible to many...
...precipitation test is especially precious to distinguish tuberculosis meningitis from other forms of that brain disease...
...some hope that this line of reasoning would enlist Public Opinion against the "talkies" and restore, by subtle insistence, the jobs of 35,000 workless men. For one other thing which the convention did before adjourning was to raise the salary of President "Joe" Weber, best business brain of their once-potent union, from $15,000 per annum...
...Your future will be decided in the next 10 years. It is not so much a question of brains as of will. Brains are not so nearly important as will. A second class brain and a first class will will not get a whole lot farther than a first class brain and a second class will...