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n. - Someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems.

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  • -- That almost every brain-worker would be the better for abstinence.
  • The utmost that a persistent brain-worker of this century can do is to keep himself bodily up to mental requirements.
  • Then, again, the doctors, it was urged, had discovered that tea was the best stimulant for the athlete and for the brain-worker.
  • This simple diet suits both the brain-worker and the athlete, though each will have to make a selection of those foods most required by him.
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