Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fertile of brain, thought up the scheme which he and Viscount Rother mere lay on British breakfast tables every morning as the sole panacea which can save the Empire from fiscal ruin (TIME, Dec. 2). Ingeniously they call it "Empire Free Trade" or "E. F. T.," because Englishmen are free traders by tradition. But their E. F. T. consists of two inseparable projects: first abolish tariffs among the lands of the British Empire; second, put a high tariff on anything entering the Empire from anywhere else. Plainly the scheme should be labeled "Empire Free Trade plus Imperial Tariffs...
...Diplomacy," replied General Dawes, "isn't too hard on the brain, but it's hell on the feet...
...defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor. Previously he had married a lady, described by the Fascist press as "a Japanese beauty." Last week, sick, mad, and feebly tearing his raven hair, he was said to be in such condition that his keepers expected speedy Death...
...Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged 28, she was sent to Germany as Italy...
...John Dewey, are quick to point out that Dewey, in 1902, was working with auto-education in his University of Chicago-school. The interpretation of his philosophy in the education of young children also emphasized the importance of correlating the infant's use of its hands to its brain...