Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports have been that Scot Mac-Donald is suffering from "cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases...
...Governor of New York, Al Smith first discovered him as a useful citizen to have in the background. Long a Roosevelt friend, he accompanied the Democratic nominee this fall on his campaign travels as chief factfinder and statistician. The Press glibly called him the head of the Roosevelt "brain trust." He compiled data from which Governor Roosevelt composed his speeches, supplied technical advice, kept modestly out of the spotlight. Last week Professor Moley boned up on War Debts before accompanying the President-elect to the White House. Before the 31st and 32nd Presidents was this international situation: Britain. France, Belgium...
...with newspapermen. Then he went off again with M. Coutsamaris, returned to the hotel for dinner, packed his bag for a night in jail. Because Drs. Voylass, Dimitriades and Trupakis found Mr. Insull in bad health (diabetes, chills, arteriosclerosis, myocarditis, enlarged liver, high blood pressure, traces of brain congestion) he was well treated and given a special room in the police station...
...fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur...
...portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like barks. Professor Adrian understands the noises. A slow, long continued series of barks...