Word: brained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place he generally "rags something less than 99 per cent., but he does not play the "Advocate's" little poker game. No. He wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - "Feather Brain...
...editorial writer in college, or champion literatus, is surely an honor worth striving for. If this offering of prizes is successful in awakening increased literary endeavor, it certainly merits commendation. That it will be commendable can hardly be doubted. Even $10 has been known to appeal to many a brain and pen. While it is pretty generally true that what is written for money is not of the best quality, yet it is also true that what would be written, for money without it is often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money...
...Brain nutriment demanding...
...During the war the greatest care was taken in examination of the recruits. Trifling defects had debarred many from the service. So young men to-day entering into the war of life may be kept from success by small temptations and weakness. The struggle of life requires physical and brain power, as well as the loftiest kind of morality. Drinking is more a sin against self, a sin like gluttony, licentiousness. The brain not only rules the body but it is dependent upon the body; so that an injury to one injures the other. Drinking is largely the first cause...