Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-confidence almost touches arrogance. "I'm supposed to know all the answers and I usually do," he once told a press conference. But he is widely respected, his intimate friends find him charming and witty, and his intellectual authority as the party's guiding brain is unchallenged. He has another important asset, which often seems to go with forethought: luck. Said one observer: "Butler gives the impression that the stars are on his side...
Edith (weighing in at an estimated 150 Ibs.) came out swinging a white skull which she had just taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy
...causing microbes, this virus does its damage only by attacking the central nervous system,* paralyzing nerve centers and pathways that control distant muscles. Nerves governing the legs, arms and breathing are particularly susceptible. In the severest and commonly fatal bulbar cases (involving the bulb at the base of the brain), speech and swallowing are affected as well as central breathing control...
...tried to do the researchers were hampered by one stubborn fact: most kinds of polio virus, it seemed, could be grown only in nerve tissues of living men or monkeys. And a vaccine prepared from such material would hold the frightful danger of causing an allergic inflammation of the brain, a malady even worse than the one it was designed to prevent...
George K. Arthur (real name: Arthur G. Brest), dapper, London-born producer of Martin and The Stranger, is an oldtimer in films. He and the late Karl Dane were a popular brain 11. brawn Hollywood comedy team during the silent '205 (The Rookie, All at Sea). His acting career nipped by the transition to sound, Arthur turned promoter, ran a one-man advertising agency...