Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come over here and land his legions on our shores. Was there ever anything in that Listen in the testimony of an expert on the subject Lieut, Col. Thomas R. Phillips of the U. S. Army General Staff, as presented in an article published in "Army Ordinance," the official organ of the Army Ordnance Association! Pointing out that the modern bombing-plane has made it possible for this country to insure not only its own territory from, invasion, but "the impregnability of all North and South America," Colonel Phillips continues...
...students were set to research on the cause of dental disease. At present, they claim, most of the 70,000 practicing U.S. dentists are too busy filling, polishing and pulling, to give any heed to research. Nor do they know a great deal about the tooth as an organ of the body...
...Pope's mind was on peace. This week he issued a solemn call to prayer for peace during October. Said Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican: "May this solemn supplication asked by the Pope serve to hasten the prophetic day when all humanity . . . will find again . . . true prosperity of both individuals and nations...
...locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...
...week, / / Minsky Stripper Rose La Rose sued for a divorce from J. Harrington Price, retired toy manufacturer. She told New York Sunday News reporters that after a hard day's work she had to put on an extra show at home while Price played his mouth organ. "In the theater I have my audience and am inspired," she said. "There was no inspiration performing for an audience of one. ... I would be crying, but all he would say was: 'Take it off! Take it off!' ': Of Price's harmonica style she declared: "It stifled...