Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selecting students for English 5, instructor wants more than a person who merely writes well. That qualification is understood. The applicant must be mentally mature enough to stand the pace, which, I must admit, often taxes the powers of this inadequate undergraduate brain. Richard C. Boys...
From the roseate mist that enveloped him came voices, soft voices, now merry, now serious. Visions danced before his eyes, and the Past, with all its glorious heartache, its reality and poiguaney dimmed by the soothing touch of Time, revolved slowly through his idling brain...
Last week the inventor of the electrical pacemaker (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932), Manhattan's ambitious Dr. Albert Solomon Hyman, freshened up that kind of news by attaching thereto a schedule of Death. If the brain and central nervous system are deprived of refreshing blood for eight to twelve minutes, it is useless to try revival, said Dr. Hyman, because, even if the individual's heart is restarted, he will be a hopelessly crippled idiot...
...turn out not to be an unmitigated blessing to the Administration. Orders so swamped the grain exchanges in Kansas City and Chicago that they were forced to close and before the decision was an hour old cotton had risen a dollar a bale. Thus, while the monoyists of the brain trust ranks were preening themselves on having been successfully rationalized, those gentlemen in the government, who are seeking to increase our exports as an aid to recovery, mourned privately...
...aspiring grapplers except members of the Varsity team will have a chance to test their brain and brawn in the University championship wrestling matches to be held next week in the Wrestling Room of the Indoor Athletic Building...