Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artificial fever treatment takes up to ten hours. Until Dr. Simpson learned to give patients salty water to drink to replace the salt lost in sweat, many became delirious. Dr. Neymann, a psychiatrist, last week averred that artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain or affect the mind...
...daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Matthew Robert Best who commands the British Navy's America & West Indies Station, was postponed a month when she and Bridesmaid-to-be Ruth Dora Backhouse, daughter of Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse who commands the British Home Fleet, both suffered severe brain concussions in a bicycle accident near Hamilton, Bermuda...
Into the mind of aged Eleanor, who thinks deeper thoughts than her old, busy, muddled brain can speak, Virginia Woolf puts her final suggestion: "Is there a pattern?'' she asks. "A theme, recurring, like music; half remembered, half foreseen? ... a gigantic pattern, momentarily perceptible?" Nobody answers the question; but the sun. which presumably knows its part in the gigantic pattern, rises...
...able to read her books, but thinks on the whole "it is better to be a lady." Lady or not, feminist or not, woman or not, she believes that to be a good writer demands something more still. "If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman must also have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. Perhaps a mind that...
...time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...