Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio & TV networks hope to end the suspense as quickly as possible on election night. In order to detect instantly any significant trends in the voting, CBS has arranged to use Univac, an all-electronic automatic computer known familiarly as the "Giant Brain." Because it is too big (25,000 Ibs.) to be moved to Manhattan, CBS will train a TV camera on the machine at Remington Rand's offices in Philadelphia. This week, and for the rest of the month, a staff of researchers is feeding 1944 and 1948 election results of each state into the Giant Brain...
...smaller electronic brain. Called Monrobot, it will also recall the past and help predict the outcome of the current election at the earliest possible hour. Says ABC's News Director John Madigan, professing a disdain for such electronic gimmicks: "We'll report our results through Elmer Davis, John Daly, Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson-and about 20 other human brains...
...tuatara is not outstandingly intelligent; its brain, only about the size of a green pea, is hardly a brain at all. When strolling leisurely, it drags its belly and tail slowly over the ground. When chasing a spider or a grasshopper, it rears up on all four legs, like an optional four-wheel drive, and makes better speed. Most of the time tuataras are silent, but during the mating season they speak to one another with froglike croaks. Their eggs, laid in petrel burrows (tuataras eat young petrels), take a year to hatch...
...Brain Reynolds moved up to the first string offensive backfield yesterday afternoon, as the varsity football team went through it first long scrimmage of the week in preparation for Saturday's game with Dartmouth...
...fitted the loose ends of the aorta to the ends of the plastic valve sleeve. Like a plumber putting an extra valve in a water line, he left the old, defective valve in place. This part of the operation took only five minutes, and the blood flow to the brain was never interrupted...