Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read the pukings of R. W. Graham's bilious brain in regard to the "Roman Pope...
...lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last week scientists at Johns Hopkins University waited eagerly for her dead body. They would dissect it thoroughly; study it from the point of view of evolution, comparative anatomy, brain structure; prepare the first complete study of the animal...
...father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief, the poor man butted his head against a stone wall, suffered concussion of the brain...
Rejuvenator Steinach had previously sought his elixir in the germinal glands, which he now claims have a secretive alliance with the pituitary gland. That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...