Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea, to crack as many crowns as possible. "This correspondent saw one ragged, emaciated man beaten over the head until he was unconscious," cabled United Pressman Herbert Moore. "When he, an old man with a grey beard, was taken to a hospital, doctors said he had concussion of the brain and might not live...
...lives of Leaders Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased brain tissue itself. In Manhattan Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of the Neurological Institute & associates are saving nine out of ten of their brain tumor cases by early diagnosis and bold excision...
...gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever it is put. . . . The Jewish businessman's genius is . . . almost banal beside this astonishing Lord Reading. . . . He is the finished product of a century...
Behind the horn-rimmed spectacles and tousled head lies there a cooler mind, a more capable brain than reposes beneath the nobler brow of these who have gone before? Certainly those unfortunate head-holders who are loaded down with overhead in belt buckles and monogrammed suspender buttons can testify that the men of '38 are utterly impervious to even the most provocative of inducements...