Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...
...biographed. Since Lord Birkenhead was famed as Mr. "F. E." Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these two books, which seem the product of a brain almost, if not quite as keen, as his: "the keenest legal brain in England...
...cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...
...poems, original oration, debate, the extemporaneous speech. The latter is always regarded as the most sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches to the platform, plunges into a sentence the end of which is invisible, stops, begins again, stutters, finally gets hold of a word, likes it, takes hold...
...electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...