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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the freshmen defeated Brown's freshmen and Hope High School in a triangular meet. The Crimson tallied 825/6 points to 421/2 for the Brain freshmen and 28 2/8 for Hope High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Track Team Beats Brown; Takes Ten First Places, 104 Points | 4/21/1953 | See Source »

...Moscow, that French Communist Laurent Casanova had asked for four visas: one for himself, one for Maurice Thorez, one for Thorez' wife Jeannette Vermeersch, and one for a secretary. It was two years and five months since French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez had been struck down with brain hemorrhage and whisked off to Moscow for treatment; ever since, the air had been filled with reports of what wonders Soviet medicine had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pilot Aboard | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will the Jorgensen case affect the future treatment of transvestites? In Denmark there will be other similar experiments. Two months ago, a closed meeting of leading Danish psychiatrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Christine | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Dark (Columbia) is photographed in Columbia's own 3-D process (also requiring Polaroid glasses). It is a black & white cops & robbers yarn about a criminal (Edmond O'Brien) who, as a result of a brain operation (prefrontal lobotomy), forgets where he has stashed away the $130,000 take from a payroll robbery. Like House of Wax, the movie seems tireless in depicting objects jumping out at the audience: surgical instruments, a car, a bird, a spider. In fact, just about everything seems to come out at the moviegoer except a good movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Illusion | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

With no expense but the gun, the sport appeals to every man from brain to brawn. The intellectual relishes in dousing his roommate, then seeing if he can't talk him out of returning fire or beating him up. It's the scientist who tests his latest theory of hydro-dynamics. (Can I squirt this guy full in the face without hurting...

Author: By J. P. Luvius, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/14/1953 | See Source »

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