Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second prize of $10 was given to Joseph H. Saunders, Jr. 2G.S.D. for an unusual design of a man's head with a section cut away to reveal the brain, and three lines drawn from his ending in captions telling what subjects are taught in the Summer School--Art, Science and Education...
...Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley...
More puzzling to physicians than the remarkable intensity of equine encephalomyelitis this year were a few scattered cases of encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") among children on farms in southwestern Massachusetts. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, is ordinarily not widespread in the U. S. Its last large epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence...
...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...
Some were killed and samples of their brain tissue were injected into other healthy mice, which fell sick in two days and died. The virus also worked on monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits. Typical of eastern equine encephalomyelitis was the two-day incubation period, as well as the violent symptoms which are unique and completely different from those occurring in human beings. As a further check, however, they injected deadly doses of the virus into animals which had been immunized against eastern equine virus. All these remained "perfectly well...