Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliament for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire. It was not until 1917 that he attained any degree of political prominence. In this year he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, retaining that position until 1921, when he became Secretary of the Board of Trade. His fine business brain and the manner in which he had discharged his duties under the Coalition Government induced Bonar Law to appoint him as Chancellor of the Exchequer last Fall. This office he also filled with excellent busi- ness efficiency. His experience has not been great as politicians go, and he is confronted with...
...International Suffrage Conference in Rome I succeeded in getting a resolution for an official visit to the grave of the Italian Unknown Soldier changed to a one- minute standing tribute to the dead of all nations, a Boston newspaper spoke of my ' perverse and mischief-making mind,' my 'busybody brain...
...with letters." For that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless as a revival meeting. There, however, one does hear good conversation. It is one of the few places I know where it is possible to discuss abstract ideas over a long period of time without the introduction of personalities. Dell is keen, fearless and just...
...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...
...Thomas M. Thompson, professor of psychology at Colgate University, gave to the neurological department of the University of Chicago the brain of his four-year-old son, who was accidentally drowned. The child had an intelligence quotient by the Stanford-Binet tests of between 160 and 165, which would place him at least in the "near-genius" class...