Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near dusty Teheran, where cargo from the U.S. and Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
...gave due and admiring credit to American Lend-Lease, to the air blows over western Europe, to assembling invasion armies. The Russians were told that their future must be linked to that of their allies. English had become a primary instead of secondary language in the schools. Red Star, organ of the Army, capped the new feeling with a poem by Sergei Vassiliev, entitled Pushkin and Byron...
...hand has two major functions, says Dr. Wolff. It is the primary organ of the sense of touch and the primary instrument of human action. In both functions "the hand is a visible part of the human brain." Both hand and brain respond to external impressions. The sum of the nervous, emotional and mental responses is personality-by the Wolff thesis, clearly legible in the hand...
Prehensile or Tactile. Dr. Wolff's classification of hands is complex but is based primarily on the use of the hand as a sense organ or as a tool for action. She lists six major types, a dozen combinations. Examples of basic types...
...mouth organ, or harmonica, has been a great comfort to U.S. soldiers in past wars. But priorities in metal have already put a serious crimp in the U.S. harmonica business. This war's comfort is more likely to come from two easily portable and nonmetallic instruments : the "sweet potato," or ocarina, and the tonette...