Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there is still no consistent evidence as to whether these individuals react to pleasurable sensations, such as "cozy warmth or coolness, or caressing or soothing touches...
...James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...weeks of revolt and strikes, the Communist Government announced mass dismissals of industrial workers and government employees. East Germany's Red leaders arrived in Moscow to ask Russian aid for the faltering East German economy. In Warsaw the Polish government set up a 25-man "brain trust" to grapple with Poland's serious economic ills. All three nations have announced intentions to cut back their five-year plans...
...Pennsylvania added that Neanderthal man did not have fangs or other wild-animal features. These unappealing characteristics were given to him by heavy-handed reconstructors. He could not have been as brutish as his detractors say. His face and skull certainly had a somewhat apelike cast, but his brain was as big as that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect...
...forecast. Al most every American shared in the unparalleled prosperity. Unemployment was down to 2,463,000 in November, and workers were eagerly baited, cajoled and lured into jobs by ads and employment agencies from coast to coast. The shortage was not only of brawn, but also of brain. Some years ago Planemaker Boeing, for example, needed one engineer for every 15 employees. By this year the ratio was down to one engineer for every ten-and Boeing was desperately searching for more engineers...