Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly two years Franklin Roosevelt treated the country to a breath-taking spectacle of political leadership. He was in the headlines several times a week with a new plan for Recovery, a new program for Reform. Congress bowed and scraped and seemed delighted to do his bidding. Brain Trusters spouted endless ideas for revamping U. S. society. Washington throbbed with excited activity and the country felt it was at last on the move...
...will of Saint Sun has definitely Communist leanings, enjoins China to cooperate with Soviet Russia and with Germany which Saint Sun expected to continue Socialist, not foreseeing Hitler. Last week famed Imperial German General Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans...
...terrifying sense of being about to drop dead. And he looks very much as he feels. Many victims do die during their first attack of angina pectoris. But for most victims the first attack is the heart's warning that it will cease working if its brain, soul and body do not instantly change to a calmer way of life...
...have the public's first look at the biggest and keenest mechanical brain in the world, a total of 6.000 persons one day last week trooped down into a basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer...
Years of tradition will be shattered this afternoon when Dick Harlow, Harvard's first non-graduate head coach, inaugurates spring football practice in the Briggs Cage. For the first time in history, not one Crimson grad will be on the staff of instructors that will provide the brain power behind the Varsity's drive for victory...