Word: brass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues. Another attributed the contraction of the cerebral cavity to the course of study pursued by the Senior. A third, with a powerful microscope, found a small particle of knowledge acquired before...
...thirty thousand volumes that appear every year, the oddest and queerest is the Examination Book, - that book in which the student exhibits his little penny-whistle, and tries to persuade the instructor that it is a full brass band...