Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashioned to impress, an air of profundity being imparted by the particularly scientific letters k, x and o = Kodak, Kleenex, Sapolio. The new technological words were sinful hybrids like 'electrocute,' or misunderstood phrases like 'personal equation,' 'nth degree,' or 'psychological moment'-brain addlers of the greatest potency...
...judge from the attachments for the muscles of the nape of his neck, Saldanha man must have walked with a pronounced stoop. He had somewhat less room for brain than Neanderthal man, who is generally considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make and use stone tools. Crude hand axes were found in the blow-out among the bones. Since many anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking mammal," Saldanha will have to be recognized as a genuine, if uncouth...
...spectacular failures are remembered long after their normal successes have been forgotten. Their trouble is that in trying to avoid failures they have run up against an obstacle created by themselves. The observation methods of modern meteorology pull so many figures out of the air that no human brain or combination of brains can digest them all in time to make a fully considered forecast...
Last week the U.S. Weather Bureau, Air Force and Navy told how they hope to turn the job over to an electronic brain. The theory has been worked out at the Institute for Advanced Study, and electronic computers will soon be available that can handle the figuring load. The machine will get a set of mathematical equations. The latest meteorological figures from most of the U.S. and 1,000 miles out into the Atlantic will be fed into it.* Then the machine will start computing. In less than two hours, it will follow 40 million "instructions" and arrive...
...hazy memory of school, my little old knotty skull was so busy entertaining cube roots of things and the preterit of foreign languages and that old "whan that Aprile" business from Chaucer that I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't have any opinions. Robert Ruark, New York World Telegram and Sun, November...