Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the "brain-trust" has been taking a political beating of late, the need of specialized authorities in our governmental agencies remains more evident than ever. In no other way can a permanent, non-partisan personnel be created which will function with the efficacy and morale of the British civil service. --Boston Herald...
...body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw, now to be known as Pilsudski University. Exhausted with much mourning, Ambassador Bullitt went to bed in Cracow...
...Less Brain, Better Sense. A Louisville woman, aged 35, had a tumor cut out of that part of her brain with which she did her thinking. To the astonishment of Louisville's Dr. Roy Glenwood Spurting who operated and Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly who managed the case thereafter, the woman exhibited better sense after the operation than ever before-her intelligence tests prove her an average U. S. adult. Her memory for recent events is excellent, for remote events remarkable. She now does more work, with less fatigue, worries less, has a better temper. She no longer fidgets...
Explanations: The uninjured parts of her brain have assumed the work of the excised part; remaining bits of the thinking part of her brain, now unencumbered by the tumor, serve her adequately; her unusual ability to concentrate may be due to a lack of mental side channels characteristic of whole-brained individuals...
...SYNDICATE MURDERS-William R. Randall-Greenberg ($2). A young journalist and a brilliant Jewish detective become involved in a war between the gangs and an anti-crime brain trust...