Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your idea of having a questionnaire (TIME, Jan. 22) is commendable on the whole, but after spending days cramming for impending Midyears, looking forward to the weekly relaxation of TIME-reading, it is most distressing to find one's-self confronted with one more brain-twister; voluntary, hence the more binding. TIME-reading becomes a response to a challenge. ... I am not in the best of humors, thanks...
...purpose: "To know consistent differences between the brilliant man and the dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler. . . . To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease. We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery. We must know more about changes under drugs and complexities of function; more about the nutritional support the brain depends upon to do its best...
...Philadelphia it will start the first domestic radio facsimile service in the U. S. If successful, RCA hopes to expand this type of service throughout the U. S. Such a move would put RCA in a strategic bargaining position for the huge communications merger on which the Washington Brain Trust has been at work for months...
Ulysses is an epic constructed on the principles of solid geometry, a synthetic dissection. Showing a thick segment (in time: 20 hours) of one day's life in Dublin, it cuts through many a solid slice of human tissue. It slices through "literary" brain cells...
...Professor of Banking and Finance, former special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, has been appointed as an adviser to the General Motors Corporation, it was announced Saturday. Professor Sprague, who was formerly the monetary adviser to the Bank of England, resigned from his post to join the "brain trust" in Washington. With General Motors, Sprague will be associated with the foreign department...