Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then began the slapping, spanking bout of brawn and brain. A sinewy limb slipped under an unprotected crotch, another encircled an unguarded torso, there was a sudden jerk forward, followed by a heavy fall, and Champion Lewis found himself pinioned beneath 250 pounds of his opponent...
...germ of a smart, satirical idea died somewhere in the transposition of this play from the author's brain to the manuscript, to the stage. Instead of provocative and shrewd sophistication, it offered nothing but lifeless conversation. Such accomplished performers as Margalo Gillmore and Grant Mitchell seemed seriously...
...most cases the difference between a major league player and a minor leaguer lies in his brain power. The man in the minor league may be able to bat a ball as far, run just as fast, and throw a ball as hard as the major league man, but usually his mind is not as alert as the man in the higher league. Most ball players must play for serveral years in the minors before they can find a permanent, job in one of the major leagues. This is not true so much in the case of college men, because...
...known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from the semicircular canals alone...
Using his legs for locomotion, the fleetest man in the world can make the earth flash by beneath him at the rate of some 10½ yd. per sec. for a few seconds. Using his brain and an aeroplane, he has so far learned to travel about 13 times as fast-137 yd. per sec. for many minutes...