Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technical adviser to PWA. Some months ago he wrote a booklet called Brass Tacks explaining the whole economic system as he saw it, a work that is supposed to be a favorite with Franklin Roosevelt. This summer he went to an island in Maine, settled down with Brain Trusters Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen as his neighbors, began to produce a nontechnical version of Brass Tacks...
...crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death, deliriously babbling: "How is my plane...
...four times a year a young woman living in Ohio threw fits. This went on for ten years. Finally she felt paralysis creeping upon her, suffered from headache, vomiting, blurred vision. Examination disclosed that she had neuritis in both eyes as the result of some pressure on the brain. With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain tumor...
Four years after the operation she tripped, fell 20 ft. down a stairway. Soon she grew apathetic, dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...
...public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into...