Word: braines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
Hallucinations among the insane are not the result of physical changes in the brain, but the result of profound changes in the viewpoint of the patient, who tries to rationalize his own mental condition.- Dr. Henri Claude, University of Paris...
There was at one time last year a student in search of a moderately pleasant half course in Philosophy wherewith to complete his requirements in the field of ultimates. He wanted something with "linked sweetness long drawn out", something that would not further injure the brain cells badly shaken by a jaunt through Phil. B. He was the writer of this review. He decided on the survey of evolution given in this course because he had an idea that it would not be connected very closely with philosophic theory. He made a mistake...
...Dramatic Club should offer Mr. Goodnow more than a chance to be the successful doctor of Milne's drippled brain-child...
...made a comprehensive study of most of the available works on the gorilla, with special emphasis on habits in the field that might affect the growth of its skull, also a study of the writings on the gorilla's brain and skull by such anatomists as Anthony, Bolk, Duckworth, Elliot Smith, Selenka, Keith, and Harris, often supplemented by discussion with these...