Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unscheduled, but no surprise, was the resignation last week of Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. as Assistant Secretary of State. In his memorandum to the Monopoly Investigation Committee last fortnight, Mr. Berle had made plain what was no secret: that, as one of the earliest Brain Trusters, he does not see eye to eye with some of the President's present economic advisers. The parting, however, was highly amicable. Mr. Berle cited his understanding with the President that when "certain work was got forward" he might go home. Last week's report was that this "certain work...
Regardless of theories, however, all contemporary anthropologists agreed that early man differs from anthropoid apes in posture, brain case and teeth. Plaster casts of skull interiors usually reveal faint lines made by convolutions of the brain. These are more developed in man than in ape. When chewing, the ape moves his jaw straight up and down. Man rotates his jaw. Hence there are decided differences between ape and man in the size and shape of their teeth, particularly the molars. Prehistoric human skeletons which anthropologists have pieced together demonstrate these differences in one respect or another. While possessing many apelike...
...kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...
Died. Dr. Frederick Tilney, 63, world-famed neurologist, author (The Brain From Ape to Man, The Master of Destiny), longtime (1914-38) professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons; of heart disease; at Oyster...
Some people are content merely to enjoy music. Others cannot rest content until they have explained, or tried to explain, why they enjoy it. Such malcontents have included sensitive critics, brain-wrenching philosophers, precise, rubber-gloved scientists. But the question, Why people enjoy music, still remains unanswered...