Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried Sir Stafford. "The United States has given us a lead regarding the way when a country is in financial difficulties it can get out of them." As a matter of fact Sir Stafford anticipated in Great Britain by a few months the system used by Washington's "Brain Trust" to obtain from Congress powers for President Roosevelt so sweeping that they have been called dictatorial. Labor, according to Sir Stafford as early as last January, must use any victory which the Party may win in a general election to jam through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency...
...naval torpedo is a little submarine, driven by compressed air and steered by a gyroscopic brain. The brain can only keep the torpedo on its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
...attempt to vary the customary procedure in the writing of mystery stories, Carolyn Wells introduces us to the wholesale murder of an entire family of four people. Each has been put to death by different means and the situation presents a fine opportunity for the brain of Fleming Stone, long established master detective employed by Miss Wells to see that justice is done to the criminals and to the avid readers of her prolific creations...
...told of a Harvard professor, now a powerful member of the Roosevelt "Brain-Trust," who a few weeks ago entered on a petty transaction with a small bank near Central Square. The president of the bank sent the customary letter to the professor's regular bankers in Cambridge asking for references and confirmation of the latter's credit. He received the following answer...
...compass of everyday medical thought was another physiological complex which Dr. Crile described last week. The thyroid, he argued, is a power-house for the body; the sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile...