Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Berle is the third member of the Roosevelt campaign "brain trust" to find a berth inside the Administration and like the other two (Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell) he was drafted from Columbia University. Son of a liberal Boston clergyman, Adolf Berle Jr. arrived at Harvard at the age of 13, was widely publicized as an infant prodigy. He wore knickerbockers about the Yard up to his senior year. Graduated with honors at 17, he took a master's degree. At 21 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School...
...sentences I have just quoted. The dream of power was always, until it was too late, recurring to him, but he was always a little 'dazed, doubtful, shy." In other words, it appears to me, from Adams' own words "the sense (of power) came like vertigo leaving the brain dazed, doubtful, shy," that he was one of the few in his time who could perceive the vastness of our political and social combinations and one of the very few who was overawed by them. As John had grasped the problem of independence, so Henry saw the truths of the dying...
...followed that idea through, found that a growth in the coverings of the brain is frequently associated with epilepsy. Small whitish bodies called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...
Special x-ray procedure, in which air is placed in the subdural space, will disclose such attachments and consequent stretching of the brain. In epileptics these unnatural attachments usually occur at the top of the skull. Dr. Ney cuts out the special section of bone, replaces the bone with a thick celluloid which the du Pouts make for him. The celluloid plate lowers the dome of the skull, prevents brain attachments, consequently prevents brain stretching. The operation is a plastic one. The scalp grows over the celluloid skull insert, which does not fracture, gives perfect brain protection...
...Prince's fellow conferees at the White House last week included Professors Berle and Moley, members of the Roosevelt "brain trust," Professor Splawn, formerly of University of Texas...