Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 31, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil; for $70,000 damages; by his secretary, Edward Benson, who claimed that Rogers had walloped him on the head, inflicting a brain concussion, when he asked why he was being fired; in Manhattan...
While all the while you'd like to brain...
Cause of his condition is hypertrophy of his pituitary gland. This endocrine body, situated under the brain, controls growth. Usually when it goes awry it affects the individual either at puberty or after he reaches maturity. Adolescent pituitary trouble makes the victim exceedingly tall and lanky. Later it makes the hands, feet and head (especially the chin) vast and ponderous. Robert Wadlow's condition started at birth. Hence his 8 ft. 6 in. and his 435 Ib. are in fairly good proportion...
...animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern man has no better skull, no better brain. Just a cave man, more or less trained." Shaken, but not to his roots, George goes off with temporarily furrowed brow to play croquet with his aunt...
Adolf a. Berle, Jr., '13, New York City Chamberlain since 1934, is an authority on finance and corporation law and has been connected with federal projects as one of the original "brain trusters," and as special counsel for the R. F. C. Soon after graduation from Harvard Law, Berle took up practice in Boston and New York. He later lectured on finance at the Business School and on corporation law as associate professor at Columbia. Speaker at the Princeton conference last May, Berle will be the last guest to--talk, on the "Regulation of Competitive Enterprise...