Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without election-year greed. Every right-thinking legislator in the House saw this as his great opportunity to prove to the important interests in his district how much he loved them. A drumfire of amendments hit the House hopper; soon the Barden Bill was riddled. Failing to recognize his brain child in the messy result, Mr. Barden urged the House to kill the monstrosity-which was mercifully done...
...brain of 60 or 70 years "is characterized by an amazing reduction in mass." It shrinks from its skull casing like a dry sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many...
...continued Dr. Kennedy, is forgetful because his memory tract, the corpus callosum (a belt of fibres connecting the two brain hemispheres), shrinks to one-third its size. And he loses interest in his environment because he is plagued by "sensations from his gut," which his brain is not strong enough to control...
...room. She tried other rooms, moved to a hotel. Somehow she ground out a few stories and articles, but for three years it was tough going. In 1936, she suddenly revived, reeled off 50 pages of a novel. Just as inexplicably she stalled again-this time really brain...
...Give You Anything but Love, Baby, continues Universal's minor cycle of pictures named for resuscitated song hits. Its original plot, whereby grinning Tom Brown and ululant Constance Moore salvage a swank insolvent dress shoppe by high-priced publicity and low-priced gowns, is the brain child of Columnist-errant Ed Sullivan (TIME, April...