Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is characteristic of the firm is the character of its chief. Exteriors, sociability, connections mean little or nothing to him. Solitude and brain output thereof is his delight...
This potent idea, "Optional Duplication," said to have sprung from the brain of Herbert Hoover, may well prove the most important thing in modern naval history ? for cruisers are the crux...
...audience knew what chiropractic is?"a system of adjustment consisting of palpitation of the spinal column to ascertain vertebral subluxations, followed by the adjustment of them by hand, in order to relieve pressure upon nerves at the intervertebra1. foramina so that nerve force may flow freely from the brain to the rest of the body"?more simply, manipulating the spinal column to relieve pressure on the nerves which pass through...
This conception of the University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan...
...Femina Vie Heureuse prize. A great Rabelaisian scholar, he is a hard worker, socially timid. Says he: "I am a citizen of the world, and a man of flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses and I use them all." Other books: Sur La Fleuve Amour (The River Amour), Cholera, Les Cinq Sens...