Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers are easy enough to spot. He beats around the bush and pours out his trite interpretations whether they are relevant or not. He writes what he has been told to write beforehand, without using his own brain as a middleman. He uses a few cliches until they turn to ashes in the corrector's mouth...
...ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond Gram Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators in 1939. In U. S. homes great & humble millions...
...contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the books. To do so means to mock the whole system of rule by law. Perhaps Mickey knew that his little brain-child was a bastard, that it would be duly declared unconstitutional after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn't even provide for its enforcement in his law. Maybe he even realized that most people...
...base of the brain, just above the brain stem, is a small patch of grey matter. Only one three-hundredth part of the total brain, the hypothalamus is concertmaster in the symphony of human behavior. Last week, in Manhattan, noted neurologists and psychiatrists from all sections of the U. S. met at the 20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson...