Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the heart is a muscular organ squeezing the blood forth when it contracts, resting quietly when it relaxes or swells (a complete contradiction of the idea prevailing in the days of the Stuarts). That the arteries carry bright scarlet blood, which has taken up air in its passage through the lungs, to every part of the body...
When Romans opened the leading and authoritative Fascist news organ L'Impero, last week, they read with gladsome surprise that an Italian now "dominates" not merely the U. S. but all the Americas...
...Official organ of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, covering the territory between the Blue Ridge Mountains...
Another nap and the New York Evening Post occupy him before supper, at which from four to a dozen guests are present. In the evening he listens to music (there is a magnificent pipe organ at Pocantico), and plays a game called Numerica. No card advocate, he enjoys Numerica with its 52 chips, numbered from 1 to 13, with four of each number. The object of the game is to build four stacks of numbers from 1 to 13. It requires no little mathematical skill in marshalling the right chips at the right moment. Seldom has Mr. Rockefeller faced opponents...
...solemn, though not splendid. On a high platform in Convention Hall, Kansas City, sat 40 bishops. Above them could be seen the U. S. flag, draped with elaborate tassels; also the Christian flag, an emblem composed of a red cross on a blue square in a white field. The organ console and the pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch...