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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are not enough words to describe the "disgusting egotism" of the man, who knows very well that woman is his superior (leaving out politics and business) inasmuch as woman's brain is keener, woman is more subtle and a woman can read a man's mind like an open book. Men get their ideas, their inspirations, their ambitions from women, but how they hate to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Spiritualism's "Grand Old Man" was at the convention last week-white-haired, leonine Dr. Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall, 92. British-born, he studied medicine, turned to Spiritualism propounding the theory that thought, hidden in the recesses of the brain, may be brought out and photographed. Dr. Mclvor-Tyndall. has helped Scotland Yard with murder cases, notably that of a Mrs. Florence Maybrick who was convicted of poisoning her husband. He protested her innocence, was proven right when another person confessed. Last week Dr. Mclvor-Tyndall spoke to the convention on "The Dynamic Message of Spiritualism." Four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Cheery Religion | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...tall, 25, is already beginning to acquire the manner of a substantial citizen of Boston, as well he may, having been for three years in the insurance business (now a Travelers' agent). Happy is his family life with his Wife Betsey, daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. James had much to detail to his father: How the summer house he had rented at Rye Beach, N. H. had been badly damaged by fire three days before while his wife was out to lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bliss & Woe | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter's 3/5 oz., a granite cutter's 1 1/10 oz. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland described the fate of a young woman who had one-half of her brain cut out because of a tumor. Amazingly, she lost neither To hostesses, a "natural." sight, speech, intellect or ability to move about. Yale's Dr. Arthur Meyer Yudkin reported that cod-liver oil and Vitamin A concentrate are effective remedies for the impaired vision which follows excess smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Milwaukee | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...nine months the Kelloggs demonstrated that environment, particularly psychological environment, is necessary for the development of an individual's inherent abilities. Gua, treated as a human child, behaved like a human child except when the structure of her body and brain prevented her. This being shown, the experiment was discontinued. Donald went with his parents to Indiana University at Bloomington, and Gua after "a gradual habituating process" was returned to Professor Yerkes to learn the prison life of other U. S. chimpanzees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Babe & Ape | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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