Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychologists and alarmists periodically come out with new discoveries, so called, which affect the future of humanity. They have proved that man, is, as a race, incapable of true civilization; that negroes and eskimoes have the minimum of brain capacity, and that woman is far inferior to man; but it has remained for a scientist to declare that "70,000,000 of the inhabitants of the United States have little or no brains, and education can add little to their intelligence". Not more than 50 per cent of our population is capable of completing high school, and less than...
...AUBURN STREET, May 12.--After a three hour conference late this afternoon CRIMSON representatives succeeded in forcing the cringing cohorts of Lampy to sign articles for the annual diamond contest of brain and brawn. Immediately after the conference, however, in a desperate spirit of bravado, Lampy handed the CRIMSON the following challenge...
Died. Scott R. Hayes, 57, youngest son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes, of brain tumor, at Ossining...
Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
Practically all efforts to attack paresis hitherto have been frustrated because antisyphilitic drugs, usually mercury or arsenic compounds, cannot pass through the choroid plexus, a sort of fine filter at the base of the brain. The germs which reach the higher centers are free to develop and soon do permanent damage to the brain tissue...