Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sided victory of the Yale Phi Beta Kappa baseball team over the Cambridge Cerebelli comes as a refreshing aftermath to our slaughter in the "brain battle" of a year ago, when Harvard won by a system of cross-country scoring. Yale can once more raise her head and walk proudly among the colleges, as she contemplates the dual renaissance of intellect and physique which dawns on New Haven. Mother Yale has once more taken to developing well-rounded...
Died. Dr. Charles Edward Locke, Jr., 25, of Cleveland, brain specialist; son of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Charles Edward Locke of St. Paul, Minn.; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...
...Hard-working Richard ("Young Dick") Grozier, publisher of Boston's Post, (circulation, 397,419), son of Edwin Atkins Grozier, the Post's late great Publisher, testified. He submitted a letter he had received from his managing editor, Clifton B. Carberry, ablest lobe of the Post's brain. In part the letter read...
Over four decades ago the brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
...James W. Papez, curator of the Wilder collection, last week announced the results of his study of the Wilder brain. There was a pronounced development of the areas which are associated with scholarly gifts, such as has been found in the brains of some 40 other eminent persons. The length and depth of the furrows in the brain were marked. Especially was this true of the speech, visual and hearing areas. One peculiarity was the atrophy of the olfactory (sense of smell) region?a condition, apparently, of long standing...