Word: frontality
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...centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres. The leucotome is then entirely removed from the brain and re-introduced...
...that cattle and other animals had been made to grow a single big horn by cutting their scalps and manipulating their horn buds. In 1827 famed Naturalist Georges Cuvier said that this was impossible, since the horn buds were integral parts of the animal's skull, and the frontal part of the skull was divided by a suture where it would be impossible for transplanted horns to grow...
Handsome Dr. Richard Max Brickner of Manhattan took out both frontal lobes of a man's tumorous brain, a unique case, said he. Together with the excised pieces of his brain the patient lost his memory and, reported Dr. Brickner, "control over his emotional drives, presumably because he had lost the knowledge that there was a social gain in such control. In this respect, he was like a child who has not yet learned that there is a world in which it is necessary to meet people and situations and become adapted to them...
Speaking for operating companies rather than holding companies, the Edison Electric Institute remained discreetly inconspicuous long after President Roosevelt opened his frontal attack on the power industry. Not until last winter, after the President had rebuffed a "friendly" proffer of cooperation, did the Institute unmask its batteries. Last week before 1,200 powermen assembled at Atlantic City for the Institute's third annual meeting, President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter uprose to keynote: "If the Government persists in its attitude, it is up to the industry to fight for its life. The kid-glove stage has passed...
...wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan in the next 20 years. Emotional, intelligent, intuitive rather than scholarly, he is a spectacular courtroom performer. Towering, grey-maned, deep-voiced, he baits, bullies, works for an explosion of temper, then strikes home. He despises anything other than a frontal attack. But he is Irish enough to ogle juries, turn his biting wit on opponents...