Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Folly remains an effort rather than an achievement. It never gets under the shipbuilder's thick skin; his follies seem irrational, not tragic. The shipbuilder's son-in-law is Robert Ames, 42, who died suddenly in Manhattan last week, of edema of the brain. He had acted with Ruth Chatterton in Tomorrow & Tomorrow (released next month...
...Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity of both, this cat was more insistent on reaching and closing with its prey than probably any other animal." Then nature, which had evolved this perfect specimen, changed its environment, and the tiger, good for little but biting, soon disappeared.-Dr. John Campbell...
Drugs were used in successful treatment of 46 insane persons by Drs. H. Beckett Lang and John A. Pater son of Willard State Hospital, Willard. N. Y. Theirs was the first practical application of a recent Cornell University discovery that insanity is due partly to the colloids of the brain becoming too watery or too coagulated-like thick syrup. For watery colloids sodium amytal was given, for syrupy colloids sodium rhodanate...
...almost the exact centre of the human head, hanging from the base of the brain by a hollow stem, is the pituitary gland. Normally about the size of a large pea, in giants it may be as big as a hen's egg. It has two lobes, anterior & posterior. Like other endocrine glands it secretes hormones (exciters) into the blood. Doctors know less than they would like to know about the pituitary gland. They know it is intimately related to growth and sexual maturity; they believe its hormones regulate the functioning of all the other endocrines. Last week came...
...Flag Trick) and four second places in one day; at the autumn meeting at Pimlico, Md. A brilliant new "find" of Trainer J. H. ("Bud") Stotler, Jockey Nertney has ridden 60 winners since June. On the last day of the Pimlico meeting he fell, sustained a concussion of the brain...