Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free education "up to the Ph. D. level for anyone with a brain...
Each year, at least 200,000 U.S. men with blood classified as Rh-positive marry women whose blood is Rh-negative. The mismatch poses no threat to the first child, but with the second there is an almost certain chance of miscarriage, stillbirth or brain damage. The only remedy with promise has been a transfusion, replacing the child's entire blood supply in the womb...
...dolphins? Lilly explains that the brain of the seagoing mammal, which is 20% to 40% larger than man's, seems to be at least as complex in structure. This, as well as the dolphin's clever mannerisms, suggests to him that its intelligence may be equal to or even surpass...
Lilly undermines his accomplishments, and his book, with a stubborn allegiance to an unsubstantiated theory: that mammals with brains larger than man's are more intelligent than man. Without offering any scientific documentation, he suggests that the sperm whale, whose brain is six times as big as man's, could hear a symphony once, store it in his computerlike mind and play it back to himself note by note. Says Lilly wistfully: "I would like to exchange ideas with a sperm whale." The last fellow who dared to say that was Captain Ahab...
Commenting on the appointment, Samuel H. Beer, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the state Democratic Party, the party's brain trust, said yesterday that this would probably herald "closer contact between the City's administration and the intellectual community. It is a good sign," Beer added...