Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does the brain go about its intricate business? Last week Dr. Hudson Hoagland of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology summed up recent theories on the brain...
...wave of electrical energy passes along their interconnecting fibers. When it reaches the "synapses" where the fibers touch those of other nerve cells, it may pass the impulse along. Or it may not. This "yes-or-no" response of the neurons, Dr. Hoagland believes, is the basis of brain operation. Certain calculating machines work the same way, their vacuum tubes or relays responding or not to the electrical impulses that reach 'them...
Eulogies of Zhdanov filled the newspapers and poured from radios. Fellow Politburo members, writers and workers remembered him as "a loyal disciple of Stalin," "a simple man of powerful brain," and a "champion of housing for the workers...
Next day the Pacific National Exhibition held its bathing beauty contest in Vancouver. Of 14 entrants, only three were Roman Catholics. The winner: Brunette Margaret Brain, 17, a Protestant (Church of England) from Prince Rupert...
Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...