Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little idea had flashed across some veteran's brain last summer. He passed it on; presently it was advocated by a large minority of the American Legion, on these counts: 1) the Government did not issue almost unnegotiable certificates to the railroads and contractors for their War losses; 2) it would put new, Depression-raising cash into circulation. Investigation disclosed these facts: certificates of $3,400,000,000 face value have been issued to 3,680,704 veterans since 1925. Today they are worth 52% of their face value. Veterans can borrow 22% of that value from banks...
Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919?23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From...
These organs all belong to the vegetative or autonomic (sympathetic plus parasympathetic) nervous system which, so far as life itself goes, is more important than the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The central system controls the body's skeletal movements. When a person throws out his arms as he is about to fall, his brain is working. The muscles involved are striped muscles. (A steak is a slice of striped muscle.) When his stomach churns, smooth muscle is working. (Sausage casing is smooth muscle.) The heart is peculiar in this respect. Its muscle is half way between...
...Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed that adrenalin and allied substances were given off by the adrenal glands. This discovery is termed by scientists an important forward step in elucidating the action of the sympathetic nervous system and the emotional acceleration...
...pain starts at a certain spot-generally on the temple or forehead, or in the eye. It bores right into the brain and spreads until one side of the head seems ready to rip away. Sometimes the pain passes to the same side of the neck and into the arm on that side. The pain is almost always confined to one side of the head. Hence, hemicrania, migraine, the megrims...