Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wall Street, is warned and appears to rob him of the French cocotte who might have married him. Buster Collier plays this young man congenially. Rather less effective was Jacqueline Logan as the French girl surrounded by Parisian night life that obviously existed only in the excited brain of some Hollywood director...
Died. Godfrey Charles Isaacs, until last fall managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., brother of Rufus D. Isaacs, Earl Reading, Viceroy of India; in London, of a clot of blood on the brain...
...next approached a dignified old Prophezzor whose erudition. I was told, is simply oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...
...muddled brain was baking...
Research of individual personality, brain tests, and mental analyses are products of the last few years. People are gradually beginning to realize that it is possible to look inside a man and understand his actions from the previous experiences and habits of his mind. Criminal punishment and the problem of the insane have only slightly benefitted from these new methods. A great deal can be done in the future along all lines of personal welfare. Dr. Allport's efforts deserve the most serious consideration...