Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Missouri in 1881, Grant held a succession of advertising jobs before he went to Milwaukee in 1916 as the Journal's advertising manager. The 34-year-old Journal, under Founder Lucius W. Nieman, had done well as an "outspoken, independent organ of the people against all that is wrong . . ." But shortly after Grant arrived, Nieman's fearless idealism nearly scuttled the paper. Fed up with the pro-Kaiser sympathies of many of Milwaukee's German-born, which persisted even after the U.S. entered World War I, the Journal began to translate and publish verbatim reports...
When a lance corporal proclaimed, "I would rather go to prison than shave my head," the Communist organ Rovnost cautioned Czech soldiers to guard against whispering campaigns "which try to stir up rumors about alleged concentration camps in the barracks...
...male moth can find a female-even at night, through fog, and as far as seven miles away-is a favorite puzzle of entomologists. The male moth flies unerringly downwind, which rules out the possibility that the female sends out odorous particles. In the latest Interchemical Review (research house organ of Interchemical Corp.), John P. Duane and John E. Tyler, both of Interchemical, suggest a solution of the puzzle...
...already put in a nickel pulled out a .38 revolver and shot Johnson in the neck. In Andover, Mass., William Albert Trow willed West Parish Congregational Church $5,000, specified that it was to be used in part for eliminating "motor and other noises" from the church organ...
...Horvitz brothers, Business Manager D. P. Self, Editor Frank Maloy and the Journal guilty of a civil violation of the Sherman Act. In announcing that he would restrain the from rejecting advertising for such reasons, the judge added that this would in no way affect its "operations . . as an organ of opinion." The Jour planned to appeal the decision...