Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aids in solving difficult and intricate problems; yet it does not touch the greatest of all contributions to thought, that of discovering a wholly new problem to be solved. This, like a work of art or literature, is essentially the creation of a single brain. To select men capable of this, to set them at work in surroundings most adapted to entice and fructify imagination is certainly worth while if it can be done. The plan would be to have the prize-men selected in any subject by a body of older fellows eminent in different fields, upon evidence...
...both it conjures up a picture of physical violence, bloody streets, armed rioters, machine-gun rule. When a Socialist talks of "revolution," however, he does not mean a civil upheaval by brute force but rather a radical political change by orderly political methods. He thinks of seizing the brain, not the body, of an electorate...
...Brookline, Mass'. Mrs, Harvey Williams Gushing, wife of the famed brain surgeon, mother of Mrs. James Roosevelt, lost a $4,000 pin, got it back by tacking a notice on a post near her home...
...Hopewell, N. J. and, as Lindbergh had, Man of the Year Roosevelt has his greater job ahead of him. Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so. Yet in spite of his campaign utterances and the activities of his "brain trust," by last week President-elect Roosevelt had apparently only begun to arrive at his answers for the problems of 1933. Some of the problems and their present status...
...Cowles treatment for sick minds-after any body, nerve, or brain diseases have been treated-is to give the patients mild medication and then to force them to do the very things which they fear to do. Hard reason and scant sympathy accomplish much in the large, book-&-furniture crowded consulting room of his private Park Avenue Hospital...