Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cultured, aristocratic, fragile and 83 years old, Prince Saionji conferred last week with half a hundred Japanese notables, his ancient brain cells turning over slowly what they said. He could advise 31-year-old Emperor Hirohito to appoint a political premier, which would further infuriate the fighting services and lower classes. He could advise the appointment of Japan's outstanding reactionary, Baron Hiranuma, who stood pledged virtually to sweep the Constitution aside and put down the dominance of politicians and the rich. Or was some third course possible...
Sirs: Please refer to TIME, May 2, p. 26, to a paragraph reading as follows: 'Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence...
...Such cases as tumor of the brain, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the prostate of Raynaud's disease may demand consultation with specialists or their technical services. . . . But to the wage earner who is attempting, with his family, to subsist on $30 a week, a pain in the epigastrium is just cramps and not allergic abdominal migraine...
...Professor Gosset raised a cheer from hundreds of people gathered around the hospital when he exclaimed: "The ball in the head did not touch the brain. Therefore I refuse to say that the President is lost...
With that fire blowing in his brain...