Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Brain Truster last year told the Senators who confirmed his appointment as Undersecretary of Agriculture that he got mud on his boots (when vacationing on his father's fruit farm in upstate New York), his job in life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
Professor Lashley has developed work on the functions of the brain by physiological methods of direct ablation. His work has become increasingly important and has led to some modification of fundamental concepts in this field. He was president of the American Psychological Association...
...list of things the New Deal proposed to do soon after March 4, 1933 was a vigorous clean-up of the food and drug industry. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt became an ardent advocate for a sterner and stricter law than the relic of 1906. In the Department of Agriculture Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell drafted such a stringent bill to revamp the old Federal Food & Drugs Act that manufacturers who stock the shelves of drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides of the issue...
...eventually the conflicting problems of his story proved too much for Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...