Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice Premiers, but appeared to take little part in the ensuing struggle for power. His oratory, though frequent, flowery and fiery, betrays no originality. "He is reasonable, intelligent and able," said an American diplomat who has met him often. But no Western observer rates Bulganin ,as a first-rate brain. A professional figurehead, he appears to have been chosen Premier because of his second-rate qualities, not in spite of them...
...Weather Bureau announced plans to start test runs on International Business Machines Corp.'s new 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, a giant brain that eventually will be used by the bureau to turn out weather forecasts for 24 and 48 hours, draw its own weather maps for the entire U.S. By feeding the brain complicated formulas and information on temperature, wind velocity, humidity, etc. from hundreds of points around the U.S., the computer will be able to make a forecast in a few hours that would take an army of mathematicians days to figure...
...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...
Swain, 46, who had been employed as an arborist for less than a week, plunged to the ground from the first branch of an elm facing University Hall. He suffered brain lacerations and two fractures in the left...
...legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...