Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Roper's cunning brain Forged a team that could not gain...
...Another favorite bludgeon is a fire-extinguisher, often applied to students who "freeze" the controls. According to a legend popular among airmen, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd had to use similar tactics when he discovered that brain-fogged Pilot Bert Acosta was stubbornly steering a course "back to America" after they had reached the coast of France. Biographer Charles J. V. Murphy (Struggle: The Life of Commander Byrd) delicately pictures Acosta collapsing of his own accord, while Byrd stands reluctantly brandishing a flashlight as a bludgeon...
...many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...
Synthetic Life. When last month news slipped out that George Washington Crile, Cleveland medico-scientist, had created living cells, laymen gasped, scientists doubted (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, scientists had a chance to see for themselves. Brain fats, proteins and ash from apparently dead body cells, placed in water containing normal body salts, formed minute structures which multiplied by dividing in two. Many still doubted synthetic life, spoke of a new scientific tool...
...they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots out his books, never knows how they will turn out. "And as to plots-there are only about...