Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians could find a few hopeful signs. Red Star, the army organ, said the Germans were no longer able to pull up powerful reserves, as they had last July; Red Star cracked that the Wehrmacht now advances only in ryvok (jerks). "German losses in the last three months," said the paper, "are slowly but continually laying the basis for inevitable destruction of the Nazi Army...
Diabetes also increases as the standard of living rises. Labor-saving machinery relieves more & more people of heavy food-burning physical work, and food itself becomes more abundant. Large amounts of food (especially sugar) burden the pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...
...hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony. Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around-the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days...
...Manhattan one Dr. A. L. Soresi started a one-man campaign exhorting the press to "stop at once all advertising and the reporting of news not essential to winning the war." Retorted the press's excitable trade organ, Editor & Publisher: "He forgets that Americans are not Germans, Italians or Japanese, accustomed to lives of grinding poverty, but a people who must have a certain amount of play mixed with their serious business, even in the midst...
...entered mass action with so much of its own press against it. The Bombay Chronicle, Lahore Tribune and Madras Hindu assailed the Congress policy. The great Madras leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who recently resigned from the Congress, was speaking against its policy publicly, though hissed and booed. Dawn, the organ of the Moslem League, which represents some, but far from all, of India's huge Moslem minority, was crying that Britain's yielding to Congress would result in "the rule of the jungle, anarchy and disorder...