Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis physicians knew it was epidemic encephalitis, the brain inflammation popularly called sleeping sickness.* Known in Europe since 1712, it first appeared in the U.S. at the end of 1918. following the world-wide influenza epidemic of that year. But the name and effects of the disease are almost all that is known about it. Scientists think it must be caused by a virus, but they can only guess at what the virus is, how it is spread, how best combated...
...normal hearing, airborne sound waves enter the outer ear, set up vibrations in the ossicles ("hammer, anvil & stirrup") of the middle ear. These transmit their vibrations to the liquid medium of the inner ear wherein lie the auditory nerves which carry them to the brain...
...Willard Thorp, 34, is the twenty-third college professor President Roosevelt has called to Washington as part of his ''Brain Trust.'' The new bureau chief was born in Oswego, N. Y., educated in Duluth. Amherst graduated him in 1920. He took his master's degree at Michigan, his doctor's at Columbia. He worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, which published his Business Annals. Other writings include The Integration of Industrial Operation and Economic Changes. In 1926 he returned to Amherst, has been teaching economics there ever since. Tall chubbily handsome...
...speech: ". . . [Yellow] newspapers create for headline purposes catchy, attention-arresting names for the bands of marauders. In my home city ... it is the 'Purple Gang.' . . Most of you police officers - and even the criminals themselves - do not know the gang names until they are hammered into your brain day after day by the headlines of the 'penny dreadfuls.' ... A bunch of sneak thieves and neighborhood bums are ballyhooed into a ferocious gang. . . . The reporters and editors of the yellow papers act as pressagents for these criminals. . . . The people, having been terrorized by the pressagents, are easier...
...each tree has a thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...