Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shriveled Sponge. "A narrative of the dilapidation of the master organ of life is lugubrious and depressing," said Dr. Kennedy. "All cells in the body can multiply and reproduce with the exception of those in the nervous system." These cells "are laid down in the embryonic life and grow with the individual until he reaches maturity." After that they never grow again, "never reproduce themselves...
...BEDSIDE ESQUIRE - Edited by Arnold Gingrich-McBride ($3). For many a U. S. magazine, women call the tune. Not so for Esquire. The locker-room delight of the defiantly A. W. 0. L., white-collar U. S. male, Esquire has made itself the house organ of all brands of U. S. adolescence, its most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith...
Because comic strip hero Superman recently spread pacifist propaganda in the trenches, singlehanded attempted to destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
...laboratory, studying brain tissues of men, apes, rats, reptiles, birds, fish. He believed that most men use only a quarter of the 14 billion cells of the brain cortex. "The brain of modern man," said he, "is only some intermediate stage in the ultimate development of the master organ of life." When man's brain finally bursts into full bloom, he prophesied, depressions and wars will disappear...
Last week the "open meeting" was wide open: a four-night Bach Festival, first of its kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...