Word: craniums
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...conclusion, let it be said that Open is not interested in creating a graduate whose cranium is crammed with a staggering weight of facts. Logically enough, it is trying to produce a man with an open mind, who can see the broad implications of world-wide events and whose scope is not narrowed by the parochial limitations of mere facts. The Open graduate, while realizing the importance of other factors, is primarily people-conscious. His education is an education for living, for understanding and accepting the complexities of 20th century existence...
...pieces . . .' He kept badgering me." Finally, said Pearson, he asked McCarthy: "Joe, how is your income-tax case coming along? When are they going to put you in jail?" "He jumped up, put his thumb and index finger behind my nerves in the back of my cranium right here, and gouged me as hard as he could and said, 'You come out. We will settle this.'" Later, related Pearson: "I was about to pay the hat-check boy, when McCarthy came up . . . pinned my arms down, swung me around, and proceeded to kick me in the groin...
...only injury which was received by all present with something akin to glee was suffered by one of the referees. He was struck on the cranium by a passing beercan and was forced to leave the ice for medical treatment of a gash on his baldspot...
...Moran, who seems to know quite a little on the dehydrated cranium subject, wants to be sure that nobody slips one of "those imitation goat-skin heads" over on him. "It's got to be authentic," he seriously asserts...
...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...