Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's financial capital. By 1937, trading volume was so heavy (451 million shares) that the cramped Toronto Exchange had to move to new quarters on Bay Street. Planned by Trebilcock, the new exchange was Canada's first completely air-conditioned building, later boasted the first electronic brain (to speed market quotations to brokers) ever used by a stock exchange...
...down on his Slivovitz, but not his sense of humor, and his eyes still light up at the sight of a pretty woman. His brain works as well as ever. Summing up his long experience, he contrasts the habits of U.S. and European science. "In the U.S.," he says, "we concentrate on 'know-how.' In Europe they work on 'think-how.' Each needs a little of the other's approach...
Bert and Harry are the brain children of Young & Rubicam Copywriter Ed Graham Jr., 27, who has written elaborate biographies for each of the brothers, and talks of them as intimately as if they had all attended P.S. 3 in Flatbush together. Graham explains that Blatherskite Bert is patterned after a retired Young & Rubicam account executive, is "a compulsive pain who can't help stepping on people." Hesitant Harry is modeled on Artist Jack Sidebotham, who drew the brothers, but also bears a marked resemblance to Ed Graham. Envious of Piel's success, two other breweries are planning...
First he spent two solid months burrowing through the brain-creasing mysteries of some of the most complex music ever written, finally organized the program to his satisfaction. Then he spent five hours a day for a week whipping, coaxing and teasing 56 musicians into condition to play it. The result should establish Monod as a conductor of stature...
When Councillor Al Vellucci proposed last week that Harvard be separated from Cambridge, his helpful suggestion was greeted by laughter. If Harvardians would consider this proposal for a Vatican City seriously, we would discover the limitless possibilities of a Free Harvard. With perhaps the highest per capita concentration of brain in any community in the world, a genuine cyclotron, and a private forest, Harvard could undoubtedly be the most powerful and influential political organ in the world. In view of Harvard's immense resources (the nation's second largest library, glass flowers, and Seymour Harris) it should not only separate...