Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours, each of the 40 snoozed in two sections of his laboratory (he could tell they were really asleep by means of an electroencephalograph, a brain machine with electrodes and straps reminiscent of electric chairs). Twenty students slept undisturbed; while the other 20 slept, records repeated the word list 30 times at intervals...
...important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
...project under your name if it was drawn up by Mr. Cramer. And it is socially wrong in that Mr. Cramer's hobby emphasizes the fact than the acquisition, of a degree (i.e. and education) is auditioned primarily on the resources of the check-book, rather than of the brain. G. H. Matteradorff...
...brain child is managed by a brain trust headed by John Wendell Dodds, dean of Stanford's School of Humanities and younger brother of Princeton President Harold Willis Dodds. Other members: Stanford's Wallace Stegner, California's George R. Stewart, U.C.L.A...
...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...