Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution of the universities' problem is not to be sought in new systems and requirements, but in a changed point of view. More emphasis must be placed, as President Lowell has urged, on building the brain and less on storing it. But this new attitude is unlikely to grow without being cultivated...
...think brain and mind are both abstractions, and that the reality underlying them both is the same. They can be viewed in one way or another...
...enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
Associated in Apparel Arts with Publisher Weintraub, a stylist of international reputation, are David A. Smart, president, experienced publisher of tradepapers, and Editor Arnold Gingrich, an energetic youth who sleeps twelve hours on alternate nights, works 36 hours between. It is said that Publisher Weintraub is the brain, President Smart the heart, Editor Gingrich the voice of Apparel Arts...
...Seconds. In the two seconds before his brain is paralyzed in the electric chair Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of them he is dead. The unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife...