Word: thalamus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future when a man behaves in a criminal manner, we will not say he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his thalamus. We will be able to tell that he did not grow enough association neurones descending from his cortex, so that now he does not deliver enough acetylcholine to his mid-brain...
Above all other benefits conferred by the peerade is the fact that Harvard comes as a elyster to an emotionally costive college. The student thalamus has been charging like a storage battery since before the Lafayette game...