Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norton ($3.50). It is the first of French-born, Swiss-educated Dr. Sigerist's eleven books to be written in (not translated into) English. To gather his data he was obliged to learn Russian. -Not serviced are cases of alcoholism, drug addiction, brain tumors, madhouse maladies...
...ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units...
First New Deal documentary film was last year's The Plow that Broke the Plains. Like The Plow, The River was conceived and produced by Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz (McCall's, Vanity Fair), who had sold both ideas to Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell before Tugwell left the Brain Trust for the molasses business. Sponsor of the finished film is the Farm Security Administration, successor to the Resettlement Administration in the Department of Agriculture...
Internationally known author H. G. Wells will be taken by special escorts through the Yard this morning, later feted at a luncheon given by the Signet Society. He will speak on Monday at 8:15 o'clock on "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" in Symphony Hall...
...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...