Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...channels in his steel disc are designed to act as resonators, i.e., to intensify sound waves. When they are closed by the wheel's teeth, the air rushing through them stops suddenly. A compression (sound) wave builds up, reverberates back & forth as if the channel were a tiny organ pipe. When the wheel is revolving at proper speed, the wave snaps back just in time to find the end of the channel uncovered. It pops out into the open, carrying with it a monster pulse of sound energy...
...which Marx's tactics are still standard Communist equipment. The New Rhenish Gazette was a tight little dictatorship of the proletariat run by a back-room clique of case-hardened Communists. But communism or socialism were rarely mentioned in its columns ; the paper posed as a liberal organ. The Communists posed as liberal patriots. In the name of liberalism, Marx shouted for war between Prussia and Denmark. He knew that war is good growing weather for communism. The result, as always, was the gradual discrediting of the liberals...
...house organ of the Christian Nationalists, "The Cross and the Flag," is personally published by Gerald L.K. Smith in Detroit. In a recent issue, Smith commented: "We have known for some time that the so called Conference of Christians and Jews was a program of fakery, hypocrisy ...set up to deceive mislead, and exploit a bunch of simpletons...." Of the Fair Employment Practises Commission, Smith said, "It is a trick being promoted by Negro political bosses and Jewish political bosses...
Next day the Government organ, The Irish Press, learnedly explained: "The Greek words used by Mr. de Valera were poluphloisboio thalasses. They mean 'of the loud, resounding sea,' and are from Homer's Iliad, Book One, line...
London audiences last week thought so too. But the Daily Mail's Critic Ralph Hill thought he saw a fundamental catch in it. Wrote he: "Where does this display lead to? Nowhere, as I see it. To substitute a mouth organ supported by a piano for an oboe and strings or for the delicate orchestral palette of Debussy may pass as a stunt, but musically it is a fantastic distortion of values. In short, the proper place for Mr. Adler's skillful and artistic manipulation of a mouth organ is the music hall .and not the hall...