Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into the blood and reach the body cells. When the cells first encounter the strange protein, they manufacture an enzyme to digest the stranger...
...boys - their physical disorders, their nervous systems, their psychological and mental states. Said Professor Tilney last week: "A large number of factors contribute to making the criminal. Many have important neuro logical aspects. One of the leading questions which must be investigated in this work is, what is the brain's adequacy for the purpose of social adjustment. ' The human brain may be rendered unfit to social adjustment by disease or faulty development, by improper training in the home or in the school, by harmful influence in childhood or in adolescence. Criminal tendencies and criminal acts may arise...
...investigated zombies. But reports indicate that the term means people who have died of disease, old age or wounds and. before decomposition, been reanimated. White Zombie combines voodoo murder prac tice and zombie resurrection, proposing that a zombie is a man who is still alive but whose soul and brain have been killed by remote hypnosis. Cinema zombies are oddly hypnotized men, more credible to cinemaddicts than true resurrected corpses, such as fabulously stalk the Haitian jungles...
...brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens. . . . Perspiring Hill students finished a tennis match, trooped with a hundred others into a hall where they settled themselves noisily. ... In Paris a lonely student racked his brain, gazed vacantly from the Salle des Conferences in the American University Union at scuttling trotteurs and lazy cafe-sitters in the Boulevard St. Germain. ... In Ojai, Calif., a student hurried across Thacher School campus, slammed a suitcase shut, dashed to catch a train...
...Harvey Williams Gushing, brain...