Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called the span of recognition. This span for the average efficient college reader is 1.2 words; a very few persons can grasp as many as five or six words at once. At the end of the hop there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary to reduce regressions to a minimum, shorten fixations, lengthen the recognition span...
...night last week Patrick J. Corcoran, 45-year-old union chief of 12,000 American Federation of Labor drivers, rounded a corner near his home in the Bryn Mawr section of Minneapolis, suddenly turned to flee and slumped to the sidewalk with a bullet in his brain. At midnight neighbors discovered his snow-covered body. Mrs. Corcoran dashed from the house wailing: "It's Pat. I knew they...
...continuous failure to remember that his employer had a wife; thrice he had embarrassed his position and his employer by asking her for a date. So with a pathetic expression he picked a leaf off the berry-bearing bush whose branches intruded over the sidewalk. Something snapped in his brain. He liked pulling this leaf from this bush. He pulled another and another until he had a palmful. He resumed walking, putting one leaf in his month. The taste pleased him. He chewed on it for a while, ejected it, then drew another from his hand...
...orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above the right eye and plunging two inches into the frontal lobe of a brain that had been, until that instant, as powerful, creative, original, as any in the history of English literature...
...Freshman Class to point a finger of ridicule at anyone who "goes to see the teacher" about something that is not made wholly clear shows a childishness that should have been discarded in high school. When 120 Freshmen volunteered to forward the work of research by undergoing brain tests, it was instantly assumed that these men were freaks of some sort, and life was made unpleasant for many of them...