Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Hamilton Gardener, an author and the only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, bequeathed to the Cornell Brain Association to prove her life-long contention that the brain of a woman is not inherently inferior to that...
...described it as normal, well proportioned, well preserved. He weighed it. It weighed 1,150 grams, exactly the same weight as the brain of Dr. Burt G. Wilder, who contributed his brain to the Association last January...
Weight does not count much (the convolutions are more important) in determining the ability of a brain, but in so far as weight may be taken as a guide, Mrs. Gardener by the bequest of her brain placed herself in formidable company...
Captain Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...
When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs...