Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for 1947's great step. Like many fateful decisions, it sprang only partly from the brain. It was an act brought about by events, and their steady, unending hammering on the U.S. sense of justice. But one man symbolized the U.S. action. He was Secretary of State George Marshall. As the man who offered hope to those who desperately needed it, he was the Man of the Year...
...reasons man does not live a dog's full life is a group of degenerative diseases that attack the heart, kidneys, brain and arteries in middle-and old-age. At least 4,000,000 people in the U.S. now have heart disease, said Dr. Bortz. Unless something is done to stop it, said Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the University of Illinois, half the babies born in 1940 will eventually die of various types of degenerative diseases of the circulatory system and kidneys...
According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than...
...hotbox alumni got as high marks as the professor; some vomited, suffered extreme fatigue and sensations of suffocation. The thing to worry about is the temperature of the blood moving toward the brain. Professor Taylor thinks this would give the best warning signal of approaching collapse under heat...
...Future. What next for Aranha? Certainly not rest, or sleep (he thinks more than five hours a night is barbarous). Politics? Probably. From 1930, when he plotted Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...