Word: brute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brute insults your sister...
...Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden of the complaint is the submissiveness of the creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor...
...fact upon which Professor Kohler dwelt was the new view of psychology which his research has given him. "In the field of animal psychology," he declared, "altogether too much emphasis is laid on the subjective side of the work. The experimenter too often tries to prove the inferiority of brute intelligence. What science wants is an objective estimate of the standards of animal intelligence...
...college boxer is better adapted to boxing than the man who has not been to college. This is especially true since boxing is no longer a battle of brute strength alone, but requires that a successful fighter be able to use his wits as well as his muscles...
...director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...