Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brain Capacity. Data, derived from brains dissected at a Cleveland medical school, revealed marked correlations with certain social phenomena, according to Dr. T. Wingate Todd, Professor of Anatomy at Western Reserve University. Subjects for dissection usually come from among suicides, paupers, drunkards, criminals and other "social ineffectives." The average brain capacity in the dissecting rooms during the prosperous year of 1918 was 1,330 cubic centimeters. From 1913 to 1917, the average was 1400 c.c. In the acute depression of 1921, men of an average brain capacity of 1470 c. c. failed to survive. The average normal brain ranges from...
Dinner Conference on "Brain Workers and the Labor Movement...
...Swedish Ballet appeared in America to repeat the revolutionary music and dances, with which it startled Paris. It began courageously with a set of New York performances (TIME, Dec. 10). It presented its full display of ear shockers and brain perplexers, including the fearsome Sacre du Printemps, music by Stravinsky. It went in uncompromisingly for musical modernism, with especial emphasis on the works of the famous "Six" of Paris, those bold youths who, headed by Darius Milhaud, have devoted their ingenuities to baiting the conservatives. In Paris, the performances given by the Swedish troupe were extravagantly loved and hated...
...treasures may not be uncovered by the inquiring eye of the haunter of bookshops? Who knows what bibliographic gem may not fall beneath his searching fingers, what miraculous volume, lost through the years, may not turn up to give the thrill that comes once in a lifetime, filling his brain with the pride of discovery and his pockets with the gold of treasure-trove...
Nikolai Lenin: "From Prague it was reported that Professor Schlosser, chief surgeon of the German University there, had been asked to go to Moscow to perform an operation on me for brain tumor...