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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...read was for saw. Other strephosymbolics are "mirror writers," who write backwards, from right to left. This phenomenon still baffles psychologists. Most widely accepted theory is that of famed Psychopathologist Samuel Torrey Orton of Manhattan. He holds that reading & writing are controlled by one side of the brain. Normally one cerebral hemisphere is dominant, but when that is not the case, the brain may picture an image in reverse, cause the individual to read or write backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Upside Down Writer | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, educator; of a heart attack; in Gary, Ind. In 1934 he charged that the Brain Trust was plotting revolution and that Franklin Roosevelt was a U. S. Kerensky, which made far more news than his widely adopted Gary School Plan (alternating work, study, play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Famous for the work he has done in converting Key West, Florida, termed by the "Current March of Time" as "Brain Trust Island," from a poverty stricken town into an enterprising tourist center, Stone originally intended to become a professor of organic chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Relief Administrator Is a Freshman at Law School | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps best known among the several hundred men of 1913 who will be in Cambridge during reunion week are Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania and Adolph A. Berle, a member of President Roosevelt's original brain trust and now assistant secretary of State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Entertainment, More Renewal of Friendship Is Keynote of '13 Reunion | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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