Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This curiosity about his own brain, and his grave sense of responsibility and hope for its products, would be understandable enough if only for its most recent series of convolutions?the experiments in which he planned, built and flew the world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
Brown has Ivy on the brain. Last year Capitol Records pressed a record album entitled "Songs of the Ivy League" including selections from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania. Brown alone was excluded and Brown was hurt...
...later (in the face of a clamoring public) to be restored to life. The plunge mattered less in the present case, since Holmes was scarcely alive before. Actor Rathbone made a very recognizable but far from inimitable figure of him; in the script Holmes was not much of a brain, and in the acting he was not much of a personality...
...After quizzing 37 "typical" sophomores or. their reading v. TV habits, English Teacher M. Isabelle Hall of the Hope High School in Providence announced that she was about ready to give the whole thing up. "Typical" answers: "I'd rather sit and look than sit and exercise my brain." "Miss Hall, I suffer when I read." "Books give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time...
Radcliffe's Brain Trust was defeated, 200-105, by the University of Minnesota Saturday night on the College Quiz Bowl, an NBC sustaining program...