Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebration, 19-year-old Hale T. Gehl, a sophomore from Chicago, and a member of Theta Delta Chi, had a bad fall. While visiting at the Delta Phi house, he lost his balance on the stairs and plunged to the bottom. Two days later he died of a brain hemorrhage...
Searching his brain for a fresh lead on an editorial on slums, Editor P. Bernard Young of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide stared moodily out the window-and saw a Negro hovel cave in. Rushing from his office, he got pictures, a story and a bitter editorial that shocked Norfolk's officials into action. That was in 1933. Now Norfolk has four modern Negro housing developments, and Editor Young heads the Negro housing advisory commission...
...says, in coming to New York ("too much of a headache"). She would rather be with her husband Harry and three-year-old daughter Virginia at home in Regent's Park, where she still does most of the housework-"anything with my hands, and not much with my brain." Vera's explanation of her success: "I suppose I'm the girl in the street, singing to the man in the street...
...charged Farmer Bill Mach. When Mach prudently sidestepped, Grady kept on going, right through a small feed-door (about the size of a Denver Post front page) in the side of a silo. For three days, while Grady placidly munched hay and grew fatter, Farmer Mach racked his brain for a way to get Grady out alive without tearing a hole in his silo...
...bulk of this sum goes toward perfecting a gadget which promises to do away with the cumbersome iron lung. The new device, developed by Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of Physiology, keeps a patient with paralyzed lungs breathing by stimulating certain parts of his brain with electricity...