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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical serum, "all dishonesty, crime and conflict from the human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 50 Years of Hearst | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Brain Truster defended the New Deal in dwelling at some length on the important position occupied by government in economic security. "Roughly speaking," he said, "there are three broad patterns by which a government can deal with its economic activity. First by providing a favorable environment for business growth; secondly, to actually manipulate this environment for the desired result; and thirdly, through deliberately planning the operations of business itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW DEALER TO SPEAK FOR DUNSTER TONIGHT | 3/10/1937 | See Source »

...believe the young woman's story until he saw the projecting butt of the spike. He rushed her to a hospital where he extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived for many years after an explosion drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed on account of an abscess of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spiked Brain | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spiked Brain | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Died. Everett Andrew Colson, 50, lean Yankee lawyer, loyal Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs & Minister of Finance in Ethiopia (1930-36) ; after two months' illness; in Washington. Paid $9.000 a year and his living, Brain-Truster Colson shrewdly directed Emperor Haile Selassie's appeals to the League of Nations against Italian invasion, after Addis Ababa had fallen went to Geneva to plead Ethiopia's cause as the first U. S. citizen seated in the League as a foreign delegate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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