Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles on to Birmingham where a surgeon extracted a slug sunk one inch in his brain...
...going to let you in on something. . . . How do you suppose all this happened? This is the way it happened: The young brain-trusters caught the Socialists in swimming and they ran away with their clothes. Now, it is all right with me, if they want to disguise themselves as Karl Marx or Lenin or any of the rest of that bunch, but I won't stand for their allowing them to march under the banner of Jefferson or Jackson or Cleveland...
...Schoolboys often outstrip routine work in the Freshmen year. There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power is underestimated and the process of education before settlement into a gainful occupation and marriage has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...named Ben Smith, she had found Broadway so obdurate that she preferred to remain unmentioned in the program's "Who's Who" when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when the chief topic of interest is her daughter's disappearance. "Every time Ah go downtown in Louis ville somebody says : 'There...
...Brain Power & Age. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago stated: "Bright children do not develop much faster than average or dull children, nor do they continue their mental growth to a later age, as is commonly believed...