Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought to its development, all reasonable protection, and I do not believe that it is necessary for Harvard, in order to be good sportsmen, to discard the results of this ceaseless effort. A football play cannot be patented but I see no reason why the product of the brain should not be given all reasonable safe-guards...
...constantly hearing the great bankers of the country referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that have in some way gained the wealth that should be his, and when this hatred reaches a certain intensity in the muddled thoughts of a man with unbalanced brain, he is ready to throw a bomb and kill any number of people in order to wreak revenge on the wicked bankers that demagogues and their approving newspapers have taught him to hate. --Boston Commercial Bulletin...
...their schools shop-work, drawing, and music, and by placing these subjects where they belong,--on an equal basis with Greek, Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long...
...There is a brain beyond the individual brain of men which controls the world. For me the existence of the soul previous to and independent of the body wherein it it housed is a fact as indisputable as that the sun, moon, and stars exist. We shall some day find in nature marvelous processes of which we are at present unaware and these will give definite proof to the skeptical that the soul can never...