Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, Trotsky is only the convenient mouthpiece for the group of cosmopolitan revolutionaries forming the general staff of the class warfare of the world, a staff possessing brain power and resources greater than anything Lenin's followers had before the War. "There is good reason to suspect that the 'Free International' has drawn a large part of its present funds from gold exported by the Government of Spain. The Spanish Republicans removed from Madrid gold of an estimated value of $400,000,000. To insure safety against claims by General Francisco Franco's Insurgents, much...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pepper-up," "pep pills...
...breathing exercises by which yogins claim to achieve a state of mental sublimity, Dr. Behanan says they merely dulled his wits, possibly due to a lack of oxygen in the brain. Breathing normally, handsome Dr. Behanan, 35, is famed at Yale as a first-class poker player, an ambidextrous ping-pongist hard to beat...
...campaign speeches last week Orator Degrelle roared that his academic, scholarly opponent Premier Dr. Paul van Zeeland is "tainted with Americanisms," referred to Economist van Zeeland's professorial work at Princeton in scathing terms, accused him of "copying his economic policies off the blackboards of the Roosevelt Brain Trust...
...Their arms bound, the prisoners were forced to kneel in a row before a wall. Calmly their military escorts strolled over to them, drew pistols, plunked a bullet through the head of each at 15-sec. intervals. As each shot buried itself in the victim's brain a body slumped forward, inert. Only one prisoner required two bullets...