Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Sept. 7, under the title of "Half a Brain," you gave an excellent review of this most interesting case but you have failed to call attention to the fact that the patient received her injury on Nov. 20, 1935 and did not die until March 4 of this year...
...cranial cavity, her condition was markedly improved for some time and the point at issue was whether or not there was a recurrence of the original infiltrating glioma. This shall ever remain unsolved on account of the failure of the people to grant us permission to examine the brain after death. It shall always be our regret that this very unique case could not have been completely reported...
...which we might make if time permitted. You graduates were all undergraduates--you want to know what we think about the college now. Perhaps you are not so anxious to know how seriously we take our studies, as whether we have a good time. Is this just a mechanical brain factory, or does it prepare us for life, as you know it ought? Look around you. You have heard it said that almost one third of the Senior Class now graduates with honors. But do we look like pedants and goggle-eyed aesthetes? We still have plenty of good times...
...taxes (TIME, Sept. 14). Within it nestled a special Landon speechwriting group, membership unrevealed. But busy at headquarters were Nominee Landon's onetime personal researchers, Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey, who were transferred from Topeka when the press spotlighted them as a Landon brain trust (TIME...
...Usually some obscure infection is suspected. The pain may last for years, or it may return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into...