Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cochrane was Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, catcher and manager of the Detroit Tigers. His condition, concussion of the brain and a triple skull fracture, was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball thrown by Pitcher Irving ("Bump") Hadley of the New York Yankees. Pitcher Hadley had hit Catcher Cochrane accidentally. Nonetheless, the mishap, which baseball experts predicted would end both Catcher Cochrane's playing career and the chances of the Tigers to win the American League pennant this season, revived an uproar about "bean balls" which has been a feature of the 1937 major-league...
Crawford's square-headed racquet still commanded such respect that expert doubt about Budge's ability to beat him was perfectly honest before the match began. And doubt still assailed the U. S. squad's brain trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...
...enameled operating-room tray, the fetus seemed to be that of a boy. It measured seven inches and had patches of infant's down on its torso. It lacked a face, had part of a brain. Its right foot had six webbed toe buds, its left foot four. Its arms, fastened to its sides, had webbed finger buds. Fingers and toes had rudiments of nails. As Barbara Stobie went to her bed in a ward Pathologist Warren Clair Hunter of the University of Oregon medical school took the monstrous fetus to his laboratory to learn what was inside...
With so many brain children, all of sparkling intelligence, hatched by the minds of those who best understand the Law School and its needs, it would appear undisputedly accurate to forecast a fine beginning for the Landis regime in September. Yet it is to be hoped that Mr. Landis will not mar such a promising start by further intemperate public statements on current questions. If he curbs his vigorous tongue, the zealous reforming attitude displayed by him, combined with the innovations in the curriculum, presage a long period of prosperity for the Harvard Law School...
...World and has been getting out crossword puzzle books for Simon & Schuster since 1924. Mr. Hartswick, who joined Publishers Service a year ago, lives in Fanwood, N. J. with his wife and two boys, never misses a track meet if he can help it and likes to rest his brain with carpentry in the Hartswick basement. He did not think up all the Old Gold rebuses himself, but he passed on all 90 of them as submitted by a staff of word-wanglers before they were converted into oafish little wash drawings for the series. The thing was managed...