Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...
...good life. It is old as Christian ethics, for basically its ethics are the same. It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new, and the Constitution of the United States; its motives are the same. . . . It seeks to cement our society, rich and poor, manual worker and brain worker, into a voluntary brotherhood of freemen, standing together, striving together, for the common good...
...hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...
Does blood similarly cease to flow in the capillaries of the brain when one smokes? Can this explain the light-headedness which Drs. Wright and Moffat's subjects experienced after the first cigaret...
Angered because his son's brain had not been put back after an autopsy, John Dillinger Sr. got a permit to disinter the body from its Indianapolis grave, threatened to prosecute Cook County (Ill.) authorities. To appease him a Chicago coroner's toxicologist quickly announced that he had examined the brain and destroyed it, all in accordance with State law. His findings: no evidence of insanity...