Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haughton's ideas of the duties of a quarterback were also novel. To him the quarterback was the "brain" of the team, and he did not propose to risk the quick, clear thinking of that brain by forcing the quarterback to carry the ball and get roughed up so badly in the scrimmages that he would be unable to direct his team successfully. Haughton's strategy, therefore, always aimed at the preservation of the quarterback's mental clarity. He preferred a lightweight whose brain was functioning every second to a big powerful man who was a good ball carrier...
...error of the misdirected freedom of today is an error of blindness. Even animals when caring for their young show some capacity for altruism. This same capacity is the basis of the higher strivings of man. No new principle has been introduced in his composition; but man's superior brain gives him greater power to control his lower instincts in a way possessed by every animal in small part. This is what makes him a man, and he remains a man in proportion as the law of this higher nature triumphs over the law of his lower nature...
From these reports it would seem that Roman idealism attracts the Syracusans. Indeed, it is not strange that an institution of learning which starts with an a priori preconception of truth should extend hearty welcome to Papini. "The massive brain and eagle eye" of the Methodist Church presides over the destinies of young Syracuse, and brings it up in the way it should go. Not only does this tend to promote among undergraduates that state of mind called "Fundamentalism", but also to attract embryonic Fundamentalists to its sympathetic bosom...
...entirely condemn the decision of the Iroquois. There have been worse religions than the Iroquois axiom that all men have one body, one brain, one heart. Certain bold Aryan spirits, among them Rousseau, have had the temerity to hint forcibly that the white man's civilization has come far from converting the world into an earthly happy hunting ground. The Indians may go too far in their reaction, but some degree of reaction will be a blessing. Nothing is more disillusioning than to see the descendants of roving warriors, who dangled from their waists the dripping scalps of whole colonies...
Taken by themselves, vegetables are harmless enough, except when they are heaved by irate partisans at political meetings. The deadly orange speeding on its fell course in a theater would never have been thrown if the hand and brain that impelled it had not been maddened by a diet of turnips and cabbage...