Word: neuro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the more unusual professions selected are: psychiatry, restaurant managing, promotion, vocal aptitude testing, aviation, lithography, yacht building, exporting, neuro-surgery, and planning. One man has elected to follow the tortuous path of chiropody...
...Mass unbalance, affecting in at least one case a whole large nation," says he, "mass hysterias, panics, fears and what not, are becoming increasingly a greater neuro-semantic menace than any plague has been." Whether General Semantics will become a cult such as technocracy, or will rank in historic importance with the work of Aristotle and Einstein, as not a few scientists believe, it is spreading rapidly in the U. S. Already 3,000 copies of Science and Sanity, an extraordinarily difficult book of 781 pages, have been sold...
Yale's learned Neuro-Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr last year revealed that a complicated electrical device he and associates invented could tell when a woman's ovary had produced a full-grown ovum and thus put her in the essential preliminary state for having a baby (TIME, Nov. 23). Such foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom...
Close records will be made and kept for each of the 500 Warwick boys - their physical disorders, their nervous systems, their psychological and mental states. Said Professor Tilney last week: "A large number of factors contribute to making the criminal. Many have important neuro logical aspects. One of the leading questions which must be investigated in this work is, what is the brain's adequacy for the purpose of social adjustment. ' The human brain may be rendered unfit to social adjustment by disease or faulty development, by improper training in the home or in the school, by harmful...
Professor William Vernon Cone, 35, neuro surgeon, who went to McGill from Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in the wake of Dr. Penfield...