Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many other professors have already been given leaves this year to serve on President Roosevelt's brain trust and in other departments of the recovery program. John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, is economic adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, has been a special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington...
...subject down cold, cold, cold. It doesn't make so much difference what subject you pick, as long as you know it backwards and forwards. Then, when you tackle a question on the exam, you start your answer by repeating the question on your paper; then you rack your brain for some way of connecting the question up to the subject which you know cold. Having found this missing link, you write that in and then write down all the dope about this pet subject of yours. In most cases the results are satisfactory. One man we know...
...down the boulevards. Citizens screamed "Down with the Stavisky Cabinet!"-though in fact M. Camille Chautemps was Premier and no one charged him personally with having anything to do with the $30,000,000 pawnshop bond swindle of "Handsome Alex" Stavisky who died with a bullet through his brain at Chamonix when his rascality and bribery of Deputies and officials were unmasked (TIME...
...from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...
...Lythgoe's wife ordered the hospital not to disclose the nature of his illness. But when the Press, eager to build up a "curse" story labeled his malady "mysterious," friends promptly revealed that Dr. Lythgoe had cerebral arteriosclerosis, the by no means rare condition of hardening of the brain arteries...