They are big brains, eggheads, all of them with their favorite gadgets.
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It is of value not only for the interest and amusement of an ever-growing army of eggheads; it goes much further than that.
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It is not as if it were a cranky scheme thought up by a lot of ultra-modern doctrinaire eggheads.
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He said that he was fundamentally anegghead.
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One of the difficulties is that even the eggheads are not agreed on how it should be done.
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He said that he would not pay eggheads for telling him why the grass was green.
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The trouble is that eggheads have a constitutional tendency to ally themselves with fatheads; and it does not really work out from the point of view of a good policy.
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The word "egghead" was originally used without invidious associations, but quickly assumed them, and acquired a much sharper tone than the traditional "highbrow".
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Due to the academic strength of its members colloquially, it has been called theeggheadeight.
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Eggheadbecomes fed up with the antics and decides to join them as the cartoon ends.
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Likes to call people eggheads.
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Eggheaddid not have a speech problem, but had an egg-shaped head and a clown-like nose.
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Stevenson himself made fun of hiseggheadnickname; in one speech he joked eggheads of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your yolks!
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