Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterly at odds with his brain-trust associates in 1933 was AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek that he rejected the services of AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, hired a Washington lawyer as his personal attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that...
...Biggest delegation at the peace conference is that of the U. S. It includes, however, more supernumeraries than potent workers. It includes "The Honorable'' Alexander F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen so that labor will not feel left out; Adolf A. Berle Jr., former brain-truster, because he wanted to go and had earned the right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science...
Well rewarded were the troubled Southern doctors by two medical diversions at the convention: 1) an operation by which Drs. Walter Freeman & James Winston Watts of Washington actually cut the ability to worry out of the brain; 2) operations by which Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Baltimore remodels anal, urinary and genital defects. Psychiatrists and brain surgeons stormed at each other concerning the good sense of Drs. Freeman & Watts's work...
...frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres. The leucotome is then entirely removed from the brain and re-introduced in an anterolateral [front and side] direction into the same prefrontal lobe where cores are cut at a depth of 4.5 cm., 3.5 cm. and 2.5 cm. In like manner six spherical cuts or cores are made in the other frontal lobes...
...popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly...