Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Centres. That certain areas of the brain are connected with thinking, seeing, hearing and the other special senses is definitely known. That every muscle has a representative spot in the brain has been supposed, but never demonstrated conclusively until Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago thrice pushed a sharp wire into the brain of a normal man and found that an electrical current resulted every time the man closed his jaw. The experiment was possible because a bone tumor had necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson...
John Hathaway Spencer, a graduate of Grinnel College in Iowa, who received his M.A, here in 1931, has accepted Haile Selassle's appointment as adviser on foreign affairs, thus becoming the second American in the Power of Trinity's Brain Trust...
...testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...
...such thoughts coursed through Franklin Roosevelt's busy brain, they were secret. Only two concrete hints reached the Press last week. One came from CCC Director Fechner. He admitted that the Administration plans to cut the CCC enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 to reduce the number of CCCamps from 2,248 to 1,456. The other hint came from President Roosevelt himself. A newshawk asked at a Press conference whether he planned to allocate $3,000,000 for work on the Florida Ship Canal. Funds for such large projects, said the President, would be included...
...subjects of King George V in Great Britain and Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights...