Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using the brain-toughener on the fistulous young woman was a "hunch" the immediate success of which amazed Dr. Cutler and his young associate, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger. Protecting her throat from the caustic effects of the fluid, they merely flushed out the fistula. The flushing burned the lining of the fistula. As the walls healed they grew together, closing the abnormal passage in the neck...
...more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem like in March...
...vitally interested in the reflexes and workings, dissections, and explanations in Russian, of the brains of children, frogs, idiots, or syphiletics, "Mechanics of the Brain" is at best boring. Pudovkin's film records of Professor Ivan Pavlov's physiology research work on the reflex action of the brain, now shown to the public for the first time, should henceforth only be exhibited in biological and psychological laboratories...
...last week-William Phillips and Raymond Moley. Mr. Phillips is a longtime career diplomat. As envoy he has represented the U. S. in the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada, served two years (1922-24) as Undersecretary of State. He is a protocol (procedure) expert. Professor Moley, head of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust" has been the new President's chief adviser on War Debts since accompanying him to the first White House conference with President Hoover...
After Schaaf's death Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, ordered dissection of the brain. His assistants hardened the organ, sliced it microscopically thin. The microscope showed that Schaaf, before he went into his last fight, had been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...