Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which inhabits fresh water) is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a healthy and flawless new flatworm. Just how this marvelously convenient process of regeneration in lower animals works, no one knows. One theory is that their bodies contain undifferentiated, "totipotent" cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance. Professor James Walter Wilson of Brown University hazarded the guess that higher animals, perhaps even man, may harbor these cells, but that they have become so feeble in the process of evolution that they yield to the quicker-acting, wound-healing mechanism which covers...
BERLIN--Chancellor Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party organ, the Voelkischer Beobachter, tonight warned British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that "our armed forces are burning to deal blows against Britain" that will bring an early end to the war and a German victory...
Leadership of the "Christian" groups, if not their rank & file, is largely Irish Catholic. Among numerous Catholic priests who have been disturbed by the participation of Catholics in these groups is Rev. Paul B. Ward, Paulist father, editor of Wisdom (monthly Paulist organ). Few weeks ago the October Wisdom appeared with a brief story about how a leader of the Christian Mobilizers had gone south to a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Forthwith, Father Ward's office was ransacked. He was warned, anonymously, that his life was in danger. He was informed, by telephone, that his church would be picketed...
...Still at large last week was Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, who has often publicly admired Herr Hitler and his methods. His news organ Action was no more censored than was the Times. All during the crisis that led up to the war Führer Sir Oswald Mosley sounded off against Britain's "fighting for Poland." Fortnight ago London bobbies only yawned when Sir Oswald held an outdoor peace meeting in the West End. Last week the British Fürhrer advocated peace by directing his followers to stick up posters reading: "MIND...
...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...