Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bavarian Mussolini, was in the Fortress of Landsberg, about 36 miles west of Munich, by the Bavarian Government for his share in the recent putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His trial is not likely to take place until after Christmas. Recent despatches report that he is critically ill with brain, fever. Dr. Joseph Wirth, ex-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs from May, 1921, to November, 1922, with the exception of a brief period, was reported to be dying in consequence of a stroke of apoplexy. Ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria tried to coalesce the Nationalists under General Ludendorff...
...year-old plan was brought to light, brushed off, adopted as their brain child. A committee of 250 citizens, men and women, no one of whom may have any connection with the theatrical business or with any reform movement, committee or organization, will be selected. From this group juries of twelve must stand ready to be called. Complaints, according to the ruling, must be received directly by the City Commissioner of Licenses. Complaints through the Society for the Suppression of Vice will not be considered, because the Society insists on withholding the identity of its communicants. When a sufficient quantity...
...furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today Mr. Fillmore's article would certainly have been attributed...
...flow from positive to negative keeps going oxidation, movement and the other vital processes. The greater the difference in electrical potential, the greater energy the body possesses. Work spends it. Fatigue makes the difference less. Sleep restores it. With death the difference of potential vanishes. The brain cells have the most positive electricity, the liver cells the most negative. Emotions are stimuli releasing currents of electricity along certain paths...
When a man of genius dies, the world not only regrets the man, but selfishly perhaps, regrets the unborn brain-children which his genius would certainly have brought forth. In Dr. Steinmetz's death, humanity, not merely engineering or science, has suffered a tremendous loss. For eventful as his life has been, his potentialities were limitless, and until the last moment he was engaged in investigations of the utmost value...