Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone before the American people. Discussion has just about been suppressed. The Administration's high hand with the Federal Trade Commission has cowed other supposedly bi-partisan commissions, including the Federal Radio Commission. We are threatened with a licensed press and, according to the published writings of the brain-trust, with a regimentation that amounts to slavery. It is discouraging under these conditions, to feel that TIME is failing us. However, we are trying to convince ourselves that the second program was put on the air without your knowledge. An unworthy trick to get a hearing from TIME...
Like an army besieged is the human body. Around it lie fortifications of epidermis. Microbic attackers which penetrate this wall are pounced on by battalions of defenders in the blood and lymph. But there is one gap opening on a shortcut to General Headquarters (the brain). To the autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Cambridge. Mass, last week (see p. 50) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reported that Institute researchers confirmed the widely accepted theory that this pathway is traveled by one of mankind's deadliest enemies...
...pathway, explained Dr. Flexner. is the one by which the sensation of smell reaches the brain. Exposed in the mucous membrane of the nose lie the hairlike end-processes of the olfactory nerve cells. Up these nerves, which are relatively isolated from the blood and lymph, the attacking virus passes direct to the brain's olfactory lobe, thence proceeds to invade more distant parts of the brain and spinal cord. The invaders, injuring motor nerve cells, produce muscular paralysis. The damage done, some of the virus returns the way it came, goes out from the nose...
...solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them he looked for cycles of 22 years, because that length of time represents two eleven-year...
...Federal front also helped to send leading liquor shares into a deep, dark nose-dive on the New York Stock Exchange last week. First hint had come when a virtual embargo was clamped on liquor imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed rigid Federal control...