Word: organically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When 500 far-out medical investigators gathered in Chicago last week for the annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, they spent much of their time discussing something that is far too big ever to be implanted as an internal organ: the artificial kidney. And the biggest news about it was a plan to make it still bigger, so that a machine that is now about the size of a home washing machine will take on the dimensions of a laundry. It will also, its developers hope, wash out the metabolic poisons from the blood...
Diluted 35 Times. One way to cut costs by about 15% from the present $10,000 a year per patient, Engineer Lars Grimsrud told the artificial-organ enthusiasts, is to use a central, 150-gallon tank of purifying fluid instead of individual, 100-gallon tanks for each patient. In the central tank of the "monster," as the Seattle machine is called, the fluid is highly concentrated, and the machine dilutes it with as much as 35 times its own volume of water to get the right mixture for each patient. Patients still have personalized equipment at their bedsides: pumps...
...Gyorgy Lukacs, 78, who complained that "as a result of the Stalinist era, we have missed 50 years of the development of capitalism," called for the adoption of "everything new and everything scientifically progressive that's originated in the West since Lenin's death." The Czech party organ immediately criticized all the major literary magazines for "serious gaps, political errors, and ideological confusion," scored them for "propagating revisionist tendencies...
...seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...strains of the organ died away and the mourning party prepared to enter the waiting cars, Mr. Atwood held out his hand to Mr. Holmes. "Bill," he said, and his voice trembled, "we played this thing all wrong. We should have let them have each other. We've been two old fools...