Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow's talk will be the last of a series of 12 lectures which have been given every Sunday since the first week in January. The following subjects among others, have been discussed: "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work", "Cancer", "What the X-Ray can and Cannot Do", "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene", "Asthma, Hay Fever, and Allied Conditions", and "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults...
Kustaa Latvala, a onetime school teacher and one of the most violent Lapuan leaders, sent a bullet through his brain. Three thousand others surrendered...
Moreover, he revised copybook maxims for his own purposes to: "Never do today what by any means you can put off until tomorrow, and never do yourself what you can get anyone else to do half as well as you can." But the Scripps brain did not idle with the Scripps body. He had another, a compensatory maxim which proved a true success formula: "Be ready with the right decision when the deciding time comes...
When Peter Karmel crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find...
Queried as to how murder victims were able to put up such strenuous resistance to their attackers on some occasions, Dr. Magrath revealed that it is difficult to kill a person instantly by a blow on the head unless administered with a weapon capable of actually damaging the brain. A carpenters hammer, he pointed out, could not be classed as a "dangerous weapon" although a stonecutter's maul is "a different matter...