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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have got to find your way on. Here, you have the opportunity to gather strength to meet that battle. Today, as always, success depends upon the survival of the fittest. To be a success and gain some measure of happiness you must survive. To survive in this battle your brain must be trained. Here is your opportunity. Make the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS SPEAKS TO 1937 IN UNION ON NEED OF COURAGE | 9/23/1933 | See Source »

...Junta. Jostled by the shouting, jigging mob in the Palace were five men trying to think calmly: two professors, an editor, a banker and a lawyer. As a sort of "brain trust" to the Sergeants, they were the commissioners of the "governmental executive commission." Unable to agree on a head man, these were collectively the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hash | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...backstairs." The other writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt's 'brain trust' [Rexford Guy Tugwell] has entered the journalistic field and is offering, through a syndicate, to inform and instruct the public on governmental matters at so much per article. . . . But what can he say? Certainly nothing that would in any way embarrass the Administration. His colleagues' articles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Harriman Rumsey, chairlady of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom last fortnight was explained on the grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Today | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...shots sent the herd thundering off in another direction. The relieved Davisons dethorned themselves and Hunter Klein "put two bullets into the bull's brain as he lay just 18 paces from where we had stood as we brought him down; and that was the end of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Deer on a Ledge (Cont'd) | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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