The word "brainbox" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a slang term that refers to a person who is very intelligent or has a high level of intellectual ability. Example: "John is a real brainbox when it comes to solving complex math problems."
In the 20th century alone, it has been occupied or claimed by Germany, Russia, Poland and the Soviet Union, with only brief periods of Lithuanian autonomy.Vilne, in Yiddish, was home to one of Judaism's greatest rabbis, a saintly brainbox known as the Gaon (Genius) who gave his first sermon aged seven and kick-started the great Jewish intellectual revival in the 18th century.
The resulting changes are the physical basis of learning.Special report Who do you think you are? Captain Kirk's revenge Brainbox Dreamweavers As others see us I think, therefore I am, I think Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThe second part of Dr Edelman's theory is an idea he calls re-entrant mapping.
Then there is Mr Brown, the clunking brainbox impatient for his turn, who bragged as chancellor that he had commanded boom and bust to cease and was caught behind the knees as prime minister when the economy collapsed.
Nor can they see what is wrong with teachers advocating marriage.Ms Alexander, a brainbox who is undoubtedly good at tackling some of the more intellectually tricky political issues such as public-housing finance, will survive this encounter with the rougher end of the political trade.
Taking advantage of lax border controls in a national park on the Czechoslovak-Polish border, Mr Havel led a bunch of friends in the summer of 1978 to meet a group headed by Adam Michnik, the brainbox of the Warsaw opposition.
To cross to the other side and enter his client's world, whether pimp or mass-murderer, peasant or politician, brainbox or idiot.
In the pink pages of the Financial Times, the City's own organ, a former investment banker called for moralised markets, while the FT's brainbox-in-chief asked why the arrival of Occupy London Stock Exchange had taken so long.
WHEN it comes to brainboxes, the name "Nobel" has a certain ring.
There are lots of things they need to do, from finding enough brainboxes capable of handling the intricate assets being created to measuring the correlations between instruments that are supposed to spread risk but may do the opposite if liquidity dries up.
"Past Imperfect", published in 1992, was the definitive book about the self-indulgence and wilful self-delusion of the French brainboxes who failed to see that Stalin was a monster.His evisceration of the phoney and creepy was best displayed in his journalism, often in his natural home of the New York Review of Books.
India churns out lots of brainboxes, including clever economists who thrive at home and abroad.
