Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Baumer). We are at the Western Front. We feel the Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...
This dismal childhood was brightened by thought of Harvey Brune, "the whistling boy." All night once he had played the kirk organ while she blew the bellows. At dawn, annoyed that the blowing stopped, he clambered down to find her fainted from exhaustion. Years later he accepted quite as mercilessly her bright offering of love, only to fling it aside for his music...
...former years Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...