Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while driving his automobile. Dr. Alvarez: "I had him test, one by one, the things he ate customarily at breakfast, and eventually we found that it was the cream in his coffee. Eliminating the cream ended the trouble. It is absolutely startling to see how food influences the brain...
Goaded to action by the discovery that the House tax bill permits many million-a year firms to dodge all federal income taxes, the Senate Finance Committee has begun to reform Roosevelt's latest brain child. Disregarding administration duress, Chairman Harrison has demanded complete information on the proposed levies before reporting to the Senate...
While he held the post of Assistant Secretary of State, Raymond Moley appeared to be Franklin Roosevelt's most affectionate Brain Truster. Relegated to unofficial advising in the columns of Vincent Astor's Today, Editor Moley has lately evidenced a decided mind of his own. To the tasty editorial sauce he pours on New Deal objectives, he has begun to add strong dashes of vinegar for New Deal performance...
...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary Forces. They tell of his interest in gunshot wounds of the head (''g.s.w. skull"), a military accident with which he as a brain surgeon was particularly concerned. Eight brain opera tions a day was his goal...