Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...
Dewey had made some handsome promises. In some instances he had out-dealt the New Deal. But as Russell Davenport, who had brain-trusted Willkie's campaign, pointed out: Dewey's interest was "in the manipulation of political machinery and in saying the right thing just before it was too late...
...brain allows one half-formed thought to pass...
...University of Wisconsin's Conrad A. Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
Today, the patient is practically as good as new physically. Mentally, she is much better. Before she shot herself, Dr. Holmes explained, she had a "pyramiding depression" (a depression that grows steadily worse). The shotgun blast had, in effect, performed in seconds a brain operation that ordinarily takes hours. It was "practically the same," said Dr. Holmes, as an anterior lobectomy-i.e., part of the frontal areas of the brain, which control emotions, had been cut through. At the hospital the patient was "perfectly oriented and cooperative"; she is now working in a hotel and living normally with...