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Word: organisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knapp, according to recent reports, boasts two pianos, an electric organ, and an electric guiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD HIRES 0 KNAPP'S JAZZ BAND | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

...sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bronchoscopist | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...After mating and egg-laying they die. The males have two drums of cartilage beneath their wings and muscles which vibrate them rapidly. With this apparatus they set up an ear-splitting racket. As a mating call, this is wasted effort, because the females seem to have no auditory organ whatever. It is possible, however, that as snakes perceive the vibrations of sound with their tongues, the female cicada may feel the shrill song of the male with her antennae or some other organ. To clarify this situation a program of re-search was last week reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brood X | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Hitler's graft, according to Spivak, is more respectable: The Munich publishing firm of Franz Eher publishes the official Nazi organ, Volkischer Beobachter; most school textbooks; and Hitler's best seller, Mem Kampf. Even over Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's desperate embargo on marks, Nazi leaders are suspected of having smuggled out of Germany millions of marks for a Nazi rainy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators Dissected | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Criticized by the American Medical Association, badgered by the Federal Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, heckled by Consumers' Research, rebuffed by self-respecting magazines and newspapers when the extravagant claims of occasional products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castoria & Friends | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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