Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...
...restricted scholarship, students below the scholastic rating of Group III are completely ignored in awarding this type of aid. Such an arbitrary policy suggests the posibility that certain worthy individuals who get three B's and a C instead of a B average are being overlooked in favor of brain-merchants who are not so deserving in other ways. There are two factors which seem to indicate the desirability of granting scholarships to students in Group...
...wants to spend all of his spare hours in Widener or Mallinckrodt the ten dollar levy would indubitably be a hardship; but the sacrifice of this small minority seems the least possible one for the good of the whole. Beef athletes are no more desired in predominance than brain athletes. Harvard points to the well rounded man, and a complete Athletic Association is an important factor in developing...
Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...
...olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...