Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dietist announced that the reason for Yale's defeat was the lack of certain nutritive elements in Connecticut food and water. This excuse was tacitly accepted by all; but the true result of the situation has just been pointed out: the supposedly stray calories have gone to build brain. Mr. Stewart, discoverer of this fact, frankly admits that Yale has now gained intellectual ascendency over Harvard, due to the new social prominence accorded the savant in New Haven. Not that culture is sought for its own sake; no, praise God. "Yale is Yale, and Yale men are Yale men",--world...
...standardized" mind itself was the subject of a special warning as being a psychological state frequently induced in an intelligent and active brain by four years in college. Dr. Sperry emphasized in conclusion that to avoid falling into this state should be one of our chief aims in college...
...doing so. And after all, he suggests nothing to mend the situation he seems to deplore; the play starts nowhere and ends there. No, the man is an enigma, and must be enjoyed as such. Some day someone will write a volume about him, but we predict brain fever for the author...
Romanes, in an essay on the mental differences between men and women, assured his readers that under the most favorable conditions for culture, and supposing the mind of man to remain stationary, it would take woman many centuries to produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion...
...Dreamland" by A. M. Dobson is a pretty musical rhyme with just a little wastefulness at the end. It is pleasant to read but leaves no splendorous impression. The "Rondeau" and "Vacation Rain" by a single author are pessimistic bits, flung out random-like by a facile brain...