Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hostile use of the stick is concerned, lacrosse players seldom brain a man while the reforce is looking...
...Department of Engineering Sciences has three more projects. Professor Frederick V. Hunt is studying sound in his anechoic chamber, whose walls sponge up over 99 percent of every noise. Professor Howard H. Aiken is building his fourth super-brain calculating machine, faster and smarter than before. Professor Howard W. Emmons is working in mechanics...
Tesreau's account of the struggle tallied with medical referee Dr. William C. Putnam's report that death was caused by a hemorrhage on the outside of Cirrotta's brain and that there were only two outward marks of injury: a small cut in the left corner of his mouth and a bruise on his left temple...
...from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration of body tissues). Jackson reached Washington after his first election as President "62 years old, racked with pain, fainting from weakness." Concludes Researcher Gardner: "No structure ever endured under greater handicaps than the frame that supported the brain of the astonishing, the determined, the invincible gentleman from Tennessee...
...fast he could run 60 yards, and how far he kept his toes from the plate were just preliminaries. One Rickey innovation this year was the batting tee (see cut)-designed not so much to teach hitters how to hit as to supply figures for Rickey's brain-trusters. By adjusting the tee to every position in the strike zone, they thought they could tell who was standing and swinging properly and who needed special tutoring...