Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page report which ECA is readying for Congress will be a U.S. product. But ECA's Assistant Deputy Administrator Richard Bissell wants the benefit of Marjolin's experience while the report is reaching final form. Marjolin's admiring colleagues sometimes call him The Brain...
...enough to be dangerous. Mental ability in older pilots is nothing to worry about, said McFarland, who is 47: "The extent of the decline in such functions as ability to learn, memory, reasoning and judgment is much less than generally believed." As long as the pilot had a good brain to start with, and his interest in his job continues, no "significant adverse trends in mental performance" should be expected up to 55 or 60. As a "morale builder" for older fliers, he suggested creating the job of "command pilot" on larger planes; command pilots would not have to meet...
Mutt & Jeff. St. Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...
...black contraption that looks like four storage batteries set in a square. Its only visible moving parts are four small magnets, one swinging like a compass needle over each box. Psychiatrist William Ross Ashby, who built the machine, thinks that it is the closest thing to a synthetic human brain so far designed...
...What Am I All About?" His critics insist that he is too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise. Said one of his Minneapolis lieutenants: "The trouble with Humphrey is he never takes time out. He's never alone with himself. If the guy would only sit down with himself and say, 'What am I all about?' But he's afraid to ask himself that question...