Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master gland that secretes many of the body's most important hormones, the pituitary is hidden in a pocket of bone beneath the brain and behind the eyes, as though nature had done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora...
...possible ways of using the atom against enemy forces advancing in Europe: by 1) conventional piloted aircraft which can deliver A-bombs, 2) the Army's 280-mm. cannon, already in Europe, and 3) the Matador-with its range of several hundred miles and its electronic, ground-controlled brain guiding it to tactical targets by day or by night in any kind of weather...
...Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...
...something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They...
Like all successful brain children, Lamont is celebrating its anniversary by functioning. Already this year it has served more undergraduates than in any previous fall term, and business has reached an all-time peak this reading period. A committee of 125 faculty members has finished weeding out and revising the list of titles in the collection, and the now titles have been published in the library's first printed catalogue. Boyond this, the library is expanding its services in new fields in an effort to attract more adherents. The young library is a robust and active five year...