Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shubert "Pleasuer Bound". Revue with lots of humor of a not too brain-testing order...
...that there is no end of envy and jealousy in the ranks of the Harvard professors, since so many of them have taken to the lecture platform and are sharing their knowledge and guesses with the outside world, instead of confining their efforts to pumping information into the roomy brain tanks of Harvard students. I am told that no fewer than eleven Harvard professors were talking publicly in and out of the Boston on Sunday last, but as far as I could learn from the daily papers none added a great deal to the sum total of human intelligence...
...exposition of his research results. Dr. Weiss first described the fundamental features of the human circuitry system. He then examined the causes of high blood pressure, saying at that the most common direct cause lay constant nervous excitement or inherited super-sensitiveness of the vasmotor center of the brain, the governing nervous factor of the heart and the arteries. He pointed out that many patients who are afflicted with high blood pressure experience no ill effects or a long time after they have developed it. While in others its presence is made known by pains and disorders of various sorts...
...feeble brain, its tasks sometime resisting...