Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and several hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered one of the greatest living organists...
...Hildebrand was an infant when her Mennonite parents left Russia and joined Canada's new Mennonite colony in the Red River Valley. The empty west assured isolation and few distractions for the Godfearing. They had their churches as they wanted them, without organ, altar or ornamentation. Their preachers were unpaid, farmed for a living. They clung to their pacifism, dressed in the plain garb that allowed no ornamentation or jewelry...
...subject and size, the house organs range from Sulka Shirt Tales, which goes chiefly to several hundred dapper New Yorkers, to the digest-sized Ford Times, which plugs travel-in Ford cars-to 1,500,000 Ford fans. In approach, they range from out & out product brochures to International Business Machines' ad-less Think, which runs weighty pieces by such guest byliners as Secretary of State George Marshall. There are some big chains in the house-organ field: Du Pont has 40-odd periodicals, the Borden Co. 35, International Harvester...
...open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said Fierlinger: "Things will be better for all of us." Cried one worker...
...heart is a pump but also a living organ: while it is pumping blood to the rest of the body, it has to keep up its own blood supply. When it fails to get enough blood, there is trouble. Plugging of a coronary artery (coronary thrombosis) is one of the commonest reasons why the heart fails to get enough blood...