Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago. a young medical researcher assisting at an operation near the phrenic nerve (which runs from the brain to the diaphragm), got a new idea from watching a well-known reaction. When stimulated, the phrenic nerve makes the diaphragm contract, causing abdominal breathing. Why is it not possible, Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff asked himself, to stimulate the nerve rhythmically, perhaps electrically, to provide artificial respiration for patients whose breathing apparatus has been upset...
Twittery Cinemactress Billie Burke, svelte and pretty at 63, revealed that, among other exercises, she stands on her head every morning. "It gets the blood to the brain," said she. "That's good for any thinking that has to be done ... I suppose it's also good for my feet and the rest...
...Watchful Brain. Karsch's simple safety screen has worked well, but recently he got a better gadget: an "Impact Predictor," which can tell in advance just where each rocket will hit. Two observers track the rocket with telescopes. The information from the stations is fed automatically into an electronic brain (analogue computer) which can solve complicated equations almost instantaneously...
Through its two telescopic eyes, the brain watches the rocket. Out of the brain flow figures which show accurately where the rocket will hit. Safety Director Karsch watches these figures. If they should coincide, for instance, with the position of Albuquerque, he could cut off the fuel, change the course of the rocket, and save that unsuspecting city...
...insecure seniority, speed-up and general campaigns of terror and sabotage against our unions. But the greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams of full employment smashed. To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall...