Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Energy. Little known facts about brains pointed out by Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body...
...hypothesis is the brain-child of Dr. Walter B. Cannon, Harvard physiologist, and it proposes the application of simple biological laws to economic and social problems. The basis of the theory according to its founder rests upon the similarity of the body politic to the human body in susceptibility to maladjustment...
...left ear, he went home to his ornate white stone house on East Tenth Avenue. To the house came doctors, then nurses. Few days later an oxygen tent was brought. That night came a Catholic priest. Before dawn Publisher Bonfils, baptized on his deathbed, succumbed to encephalitis (brain inflammation), result of the ear infection...
Businessman Prince's outburst had apparently been touched off by the seven-point program for the Roosevelt Administration enunciated last fortnight by Columbia's Economist Rexford Guy Tugwell (TIME, Feb. 6). From him and the rest of the professorial Roosevelt "brain trust" came no retort. But pedagogs throughout the land promptly answered Businessman Prince. Snapped young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago: "If professors had been listened to more in politics and economics . . . conditions wouldn't be what they are. But in times of prosperity no one will listen to a professor because...
Muscles involved in sneezing get their nervous orders from the sneezing centre in the medulla oblongata, all important part of the central nervous system between the brain and spine. The sneezing centre in turn is roused by stimuli along the trigeminus nerve which carries sensations of touch, pain and temperature from the skin of the face, the adjoining parts of the scalp, the mucous membrane lining of nose & throat and from the teeth and eyes. A sudden bright light may cause a sneeze, as may a strong odor. Diseased teeth, sinuses, nose or throat may affect the trigeminus, arouse...