Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he, as a turn of surgical skill, had removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic responses to stimuli. A fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle its fur in either fright or anger; its body temperature did not react to counterbalance changes...
...writing of the book it may be said that May Sinclair handles her story well, although at times the feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...
With vacation only a few hours in the future and the prospect of leaving Harvard for a few, short days looming up as a welcome change to the brain weary vagabond, his thoughts turn to the many happenings in Boston during the next week...
...order to avoid publicity, Mr. Ford remained at home for two days before being taken to the Henry Ford Hospital at Dearborn. He had suffered a slight concussion of the brain, several deep cuts, innumerable bruises, no broken bones. He recovered gradually, painfully...
...supreme faculty of the human brain is imagination--the ability to see things as they are and not as they appear to be. Fact is the raw material on which imagination works. Knowledge is only the beginning of wisdom; imagination is power. The chief aim of Harvard College is not so much to gain knowledge of this or that subject as it is to gain the power to understand. Growth in understanding means the strengthening of the imagination...