Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots. All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic. Into the thighs of those 72 dements, to check another investigator's work (Dr. Harry Caesar Solomon of Boston), Dr. Alex S. Hershfield of Chicago and five associates injected Spirochaeta morsusmuris...
Catholic Foch & Atheist Clemenceau. Spruce, sword-handy professors at the French War College were first to detect the military genius of Student Foch, quick to realize that he possessed a unique "geometric brain," keen, strong, supple, above all superbly balanced. Eight years after graduation he was welcomed into the faculty, achieved popularity and reputation in a few swift years, produced those master manuals of the new warfare, The Principles of War and The Conduct of War, and presently was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel without ever having commanded on a field of battle. With a future of promise unsurpassed before him, suddenly...
City College of New York has entered the ranks of brain team competition and is prepared to receive challenges from any college, according to information received here today. At the last meeting of their student council, a decision was reached to promote a brain team which should be composed of the most brilliant students in the college, to be chosen by the process of elimination...
...letter recently published in the New York Tribune, L. N. Kaplan, manager of the newly-formed organization, points out that merely because Harvard has not been able thus far this year to secure competition for its brain team, is no basis on which to argue that learning is held in disrespect in the colleges...
This year Harvard wanted to have another brain bout. Invitations were sent to Cambridge, England, to Princeton and to Yale. Last week, trustees of the fund announced that the contest would have to be postponed until next year. No one had accepted brainy Harvard's challenge...