Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the exception of the late Eugene R. Black as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, President Roosevelt has lifted no Georgian to high place as Cabinet member, ambassador, brain-truster, first-rank administrator. His CWA and NRA nettled Georgians by boosting the price of their cheap labor. His AAA drained the tills of Georgia textile millers with the cotton processing tax. His FERA humiliated Georgia by adjudging its elected officials incompetent to administer relief, appointing a Federal representative in their stead. His PWA last week canceled four loans to Georgia, impugned the good faith of its Governor...
Last week Professor Laird, whose sleep experiments have lately included producing anemia of the brain in some Colgate students, added the following to the A. M. A.'s explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would...
...greatest potential force and they will say Jack Neylan. As to whether his power is for good or evil, answers will agree only in their superlatives. To New Dealers he is the "most dangerous" enemy in the land. (After the 1932 election he quickly turned on the Brain Trust denouncing its members as an "intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends...
Just before an epileptic has a fit, a "larval explosion" of large surges occurs through his brain, three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...
...analyses of such charts, Drs. Davis & Gibbs told the experimental biologists in Detroit last week, "We hope to be able to locate the part of the brain in which these disturbances start. If the region should turn out to be one which is not really necessary to a person, then a brain surgeon might be able to remove...