Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune. He prospered, however, and when old Mr. Ainsley died, Carr was managing the firm and making a pretty penny for Catherine, who had inherited a controlling interest. All might have been well with Carr and his family if Catherine's heart had not been bigger than her brain. Lomas, Cordelia's rapscallion brother, had been courting her for years, and though Catherine despised him she finally gave in, to discover too late that she had made the mistake of her life. To save Carr's name from being dragged in the mud by Lomas, Catherine withdrew...
Springing from an idea born sixty-two years ago in the brain of Asa Gray, distinguished botanist, the germ of summer education has spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences...
...pituitary seems to be the most important gland in the body. It is a reddish-grey oval mass the size of a hazel nut, and lies in a bony case at the base of the brain. Apparently the pituitary keeps all the other glands teamed up. (The thyroid keeps them steamed up.) If the pituitary gland does not supply the secretions which the body needs, doctors in some cases can remedy the deficiency by administering manufactured extracts. In case of too much ''secretion, extracts of other glands restrain the overactive pituitary. Sometimes a brain surgeon...
...Other organs which probably secrete hormones: pineal (in the brain), thymus (back of the collar bone), liver, heart, spleen...
...Paris, Psychologist Henri Pieron measured the amount of light which made him see, the amount of noise which made him hear, the amounts of energy which stirred his senses of taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect...