Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Governor Phil, the recognized organizing brain of the National Progressives, held an equally significant meeting with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson. Occasion was a barbecue supper for the two third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
...wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned for advice to Grandfather Dr. Morris Hershman. who discovered the tumor. Dr. Hershman shook...
...tour, Representative Wilcox adheres to a curious habit to which he attributes his success, of sitting on the edge of his bed for half-an-hour each morning while he simultaneously plans his day in detail and massages his head to improve the circulation in his brain. Unlike Dave Sholtz who makes a point of stopping at a second-rate hotel wherever possible, Mr. Wilcox and his wife-who calls her 5 ft. 6 in. husband "the little giant" and whose social rivalry with Mrs. Pepper is rumored to be one reason for her husband's desire...
...Ales Hrdlicka, 69, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, believes that as a person gets older his skull gets bigger, because of increasing brain size-at least if the person is intellectually active. He got one of his first confirmations of this theory from British Archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, 80. Last week he reported receiving word of increasing head size from 58 professors, lawyers, ministers, financiers and writers, including three women...
Winslow B. Fisher '38 was found shot to death with a bullet wound in his brain in the bedroom of his home at 73 Bartlett Rd., Winthrop, late last night. Medical Examiner William Brickley said the death was presumably a suicide...