Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later, would-be Peacemaker Shaw, asked by London's Daily Worker, Communist organ, whether he favored peace negotiations and an immediate armistice, answered: "I'm in favor of negotiations . . . but a philosopher-or a God-might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
...declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres can lead to rapid, decisive...
...last 20 years, surgery has explored every organ of the body. Many a surgeon, flushed with scientific and financial success, thinks of his profession as a game of skilled slashing and speedy patching. Greatly worried by this too-common, hardboiled attitude are Dr. Elliott C. Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since...
Even more confusing than the names of vitamins are their functions, for they have a vital effect on practically every organ in the body, are related to a score of diseases and deformities, ranging from diabetes to bow legs. As a guide to vitamin genealogy, the American Medical Association last week published a detailed handbook* compiled by top-notch U. S. vitamin chasers, giving the last word on vitamin chemistry, deficiency diseases, treatment. Interesting facts...
...dilemma into which Comrade Stalin had pitched Communist Parties of all nations. Its editorialists and columnists preached continued distrust of Nazi Hitler, continued cooperation with anti-Fascist men of goodwill, even a continued boycott of German goods which Soviet Russia was now pledged to buy. As a faithful organ of Soviet doctrine in the U. S., it also had to reprint Pravda's inspired injunction to the Russian people: "An end is being put to hostility between Germany...