Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jazz Age of the '20s, social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool...
Holborn made his predictions in competition with his government tutees and Univac, the mechanical brain used by CBS, whose early predictions he outguessed...
...Neumann is one of the masterminds behind many electronic brains that extrapolate election figures, coordinate weather data, and work out staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
...matter how mundane his advice may sometimes sound, Dr. Peale always returns to the need for prayer-and "prayers that have plenty of suction." To Dr. Peale, "prayer is a sending out of vibrations . . . In our brains we have about two billion little storage batteries. The human brain can send off power by thoughts and prayers." The big rule is "1) PRAYERIZE, 2) PICTURIZE, 3) ACTUALIZE." Much of the book's advice falls under a fourth possible heading, PASTEURIZE, e.g., "A mind free of negatives [will] produce positives, that is to say, a clean mind will deliver power...
...find better ways of combating such children's diseases as mumps, measles, chicken pox and polio, it was necessary first to find better ways of growing the offending viruses in the test tube. The polio virus was an especially bad actor: it seemed willing to grow only in brain or nerve tissue of men or monkeys, and any vaccine prepared from such a growth would be potentially deadly...