Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost one generation, is becoming divided into many special fields. We have a specialist for this and a specialist for that; a corporation lawyer, a criminal lawyer, and the civil and electrical engineer, etc. Knowledge and education is forced to become in itself less broad. The work of the brain is becoming divided, just as the work of the hand has become divided...
...illustrated can also be applied to the farmer. At the time of the Revolution, ninety percent of the American population were farmers now only thirty percent; and I venture to predict that in 1970 there will be only fifteen percent. This means that on the farm where the brain works as much as the hand, the work to be done is becoming specialised. It requires that the farmer concentrate on one line and take advantage of his position in a field where competition is decreasing and demand for a perfect product is increasing...
...coins make a dollar?" the answer to which is doubtless "a half-dollar and two quarters". His questions derived from the game of poker possibly indicate the presence in the mind of our great American game as a means of sharpening the wits and developing the resources of the brain. In the submission of such tests as the following Mr. Edison has a decided advantage over all the educational institutions...
Scholastic use of such a test would certainly be barred, and yet the answers to it may throw a flood of light upon the brain and sense of the person under examination. --The Boston Transcript
...recent investigators have measured carefully the way in which the response of the eye varies according to the intensity and duration of the light which shines upon it. By thus finding out more about the natural laws which govern the transmission of messages from the eyes to the brain, they hope in some degree to make it easier for the medical profession in the future to understand and treat defects of vision...