Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execution" was to take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...
...physicians 40 years ago, the living brain was a jungle of tangled nerve fibres, a mass of corrugated grey tissue. A few brave men dared to perform brain operations, but most of their patients died. In 1905 young Surgeon Harvey Williams Cushing penetrated this wilderness, and in 28 years, almost singlehanded, he perfected the technique of brain and nerve operations. Today, thanks to Dr. Cushing, an operation for brain tumor is no more dangerous than a stomach operation...
...college conferences. It is that type of conference where the views of academicians are not only hung on the line, but where these are synthesized with those of men from the Greek temples of both Wall Street and Washington. It is also peculiar in that it pools the brain trusts of student body and faculty from the three greatest universities of the East. Its lineup aims at being an all-star...
...Chicken has no brain, therefore no feeling...
...Defendant Dr. Humberd claimed that Robert had a pituitary tumor at the base of his brain, which "soured his attitude towards life" and prevented him from coordinating his muscles. He contrasted the stumbling, shuffling manner in which Robert maneuvered his 495 Ib. with the "easy grace" of Jack Earle, who, he said, was normal. He added that Robert had difficulty in swallowing, that his voice was weak and mumbling, that he had no feeling in certain parts of his body...