Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain did this," he whispered through half paralyzed lips. "It is Spain that has killed me." Almost instantly he died. Despite their father's warning, Carmen and Pilar returned too late. Cause of death: an embolism, a sudden blood clot on the brain, brought on by diabetes...
Unique was Patriarch Hadley's place in his college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...
...unwholesome, disastrous and if I may use emphatic language a damnable thing that our fellow citizens should be allowed to feed their vanity on a dish which dulls and warps the brain. If there is a law against this, I should like to see TIME advocate its strict enforcement. If there is none, at least do not swell and pamper vanity by giving to the snatchers after Chinese, Papist or French ribbons the free publicity in which they dote. REGINALD SUTTON...
Epileptoid types: tending to have epileptic convulsions, hysterical fits, sudden bursts of temper, head aches (migraine); diseases of the brain itself and of the ductless glands, rarely cancer...
...Antonio, last week, Dr. James R. Brain, president of the Texas Chiropractic College there, ejected two policemen from his building. They stood on the sidewalk and would not let him go outdoors, because he would not submit to smallpox vaccination ordered by Dr. William A. King, city health director...