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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, suspected at the time. A ship's doctor, on the voyage from Africa to Italy, examined Hemingway, who complained of aches and pains, and, as Poppa fancifully recalled the diagnosis, spotted 1) three compressed vertebrae, 2) a ruptured kidney and liver, 3) a collapsed intestine, 4) a brain concussion, 5) partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought I was hamming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...graduate prizes are divided into the three fields of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. Kenneth S. Lynn II 6G submitted the top essay in the Humanities field entitled "Jack London: The Brain Merchant." In the Social Sciences, first prize went to Harvey Glickman for a study of the British Internal Security Program; Honorable Mention in this division was awarded to William R. Taylor 6G. First Prize in the Natural Sciences went to James B. Hendrickson 4G, with Honorable Mention to Richard M. Ritland 3G. The three first-prize winners in the Graduate Division will each receive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lasch Presented $500 Stipend in Bowdoin Contest | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...evident that you have not recovered from the Roosevelt brain wash. It is fortunate for objective truth that the majority of the American public are able to watch this investigation first-hand via television, and are not required to depend upon your misinterpretation of the event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost: Another Generation | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

UNIVAC, Remington Rand's big $1,000,000 electronic brain, is going into the insurance business. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is installing one of the machines at its Manhattan home office to work five days a week assembling and analyzing basic actuarial statistics ordinarily handled by clerks, thus releasing them for other jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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