Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SNAKE DOING IN THE STARLET'S BED?) to slick women's magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, which inquired recently: ARE WE COMMERCIALIZING SEX? (Conclusion: "Maybe.") Many other mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved...
Each year, by conservative estimate, at least 175,000 people in the U.S. die of strokes-accidents to the arteries in the brain. Among 1,800,000 survivors of strokes, a large number are severely para lyzed, and many drag out a hopeless existence, often requiring the care of three or four persons. Yet until recently, despite their frequency and severity, strokes have been neglected by medical researchers because it seemed that so little could be done for their victims. Last week Cornell University's Dr. Irving S. Wright reported the hopeful findings of a just-concluded conference...
...strokes damage the brain by shutting off the blood supply to cells. According to how this damage happens, strokes are divided into three major types...
...mother calling her daughter into the house for supper, the girl's reply would have seemed to be that of a spoiled and defiant child. But to Mrs. Genevieve Maclsaac of Boston, it was cause for rejoicing. Not since little Mary was ten months old and damaged her brain in a fall had she been able to say anything more than an unintelligible "Ahhh." Now, out of the blue, she had spoken her first words...
...perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation and worries that the light may be blown out within his brain...