Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...
...Beards explore the underground economic forces that brought about Coolidge prosperity. With the aloof amusement of two moralists who stayed sober while the rest of the world got tight, they investigate the causes of the crash, the closing of the banks, the New Deal and government by Brain Trust...
...that's okay, says Miss Johnson, as brain and brawn are out, in the next slaughterfest...
Adolescence is abortive . . . diabolical cleverness begins at 40! (When is a brain not a brain...
...this big business, 35-year-old Jack Frye no longer has time to try for the transcontinental record he once held, but he still spends many an hour in the cockpit. Says he: "It's the best way I know of to clear the cobwebs from the brain...