Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Schaaf's death Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, ordered dissection of the brain. His assistants hardened the organ, sliced it microscopically thin. The microscope showed that Schaaf, before he went into his last fight, had been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...
Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...German police banned open air Communist meetings throughout the Reich, suppressed all Communist sheets in the industrial Ruhr, suppressed the Berlin Communist organ The Red Flag and 16 others, suppressed the historic Socialist Vorwärts for three days and confiscated as "treasonable" 1,000,000 copies of a special edition which Vorwärts published to open the Socialist election campaign...
...scowmen, dump tenders, sewage engineers, and white-collar employes of the city's Department of Sanitation. His salute was addressed to, and appeared last week in, the first issue of D S, a new monthly magazine of the department. Like New York's prison keepers' house-organ, On Guard, it is unique...