Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the display of manpower and hard football the game was marred by a neglect of that more subtle force, brain power. Each team made one outstanding error. In the first period Booth got his team rolling rather nicely, and the ball was advanced on straight rushing from somewhere around midfield to the Green 20-yard line or thereabouts. Fourth down, about a yard to go, Booth elected to throw a very sorry looking pass over the goal line. Now Crowley had been making at least three (and usually more) yards at a clip throughout the advance, and there...
Honored. Dr. Harvey Williams dishing, famed Boston surgeon, brain authority: with the 1930 Montclair Yale Bowl (trophy awarded annually to a Yale alumnus who "has made his 'Y' in life"); by the Montclair, N. J. Yale Club...
...when he rolls up his sleeves to polish off Mr. Shaw, the famous Irish wit is made to look like a second rate effusion of Mr. Colley Cibber. Shaw, "has the brain of a juvenile Machiavelli superposed on a crybaby, philistine, middle-class soul... His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer." All Mr. De Casseres sees in Shaw is the mountebank who jigs for money, the Barnum of the drama, and nothing else. After reading this book the Shabian bubble is pierced...
...Laggard Brains. "Is there any use of making it possible for a man to live to be go, if his brain dies...
Electro-Surgery, the use of a cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...