Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling...
...Recently, reports from San Diego, whether originating in the fertile brain of the press, or having some basis in fact, related how the great warships of the U. S., plowing the Pacific, encountered a school of whales, and, eager to find targets for their gunnery, released from their guns the steely messengers of death. The aim was true. Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air. The school had learned its lesson. And The Christian Science Monitor commented: "War preparedness is bad enough in itself without adding thereto such barbarous activities...
...Hope for the happiness of man rests upon the development of a now science for understanding the brain." this statement, made by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was seconded by Professor William McDougall of the Department of Psychology yesterday...
...science, through its treatment of the brain; will be a very high form of psychology. Dr. Carrel insisted, "It is obvious that the functions of the brain must be better understood in order that, without intellectual or moral deterioration the human race may stand the new conditions of life imposed on the individual by modern civilization...
...younger men are rebelling." They are, indeed, rebelling against this narrow and mediaeval view of education. They have made up their minds that they did not come to college to be "filled". They came to develop themselves to the fullest. They have discovered that they possess not only a brain, but also a body, and an intangible something besides, called for lack of a better word, spirit--the core of personality which animates a man and makes him greater than a clod. Mere assimilation of facts and details, important as this is in providing the basis for intellectual growth...