Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after that first frantic visit to the Rockefeller Institute Colonel Lindbergh went secretly to work there as a biomechanical assistant to Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel. Dr. Carrel was trying to keep human organs alive for long periods so that physiologists could study their reactions piecemeal. For more than 100 years physiologists had tried to do so, with no real success, ever since Frenchman Julien-Jean-Cesar Legallois (1770-1814) predicted: "If one could substitute for the heart a kind of injection ... of arterial blood, either natural or artificially made . . . one would succeed easily in maintaining alive indefinitely any part...
...course of his researches, Dr. Carrel developed a method of transplanting an organ from one body to another. As a result of his work a man with a damaged kidney can in some cases today get it replaced with a healthy kidney from another man willing to spare the organ. But Dr. Carrel's plans of keeping whole hearts, kidneys, ovaries and other organs alive artificially were at a standstill in 1928 when Mechanic Lindbergh became his assistant. The technique was known and the nutrient fluids were at hand. But still lacking was a germ-proof device to pump...
...Minneapolis are three newspapers, of which the weakest is the evening Star. Its 80,000 circulation is 35,000 less than the Journal's, 56,000 less than the Tribune's. Started 15 years ago as an organ of the Non-Partisan League, the Star was at first rambunctiously radical, has lately grown respectable and New Dealish. It went through a receivership from which it was extricated by the late Albert Burnett Frizzell. Last week the Frizzell estate sold controlling interest in the Star to Gardner Cowles & sons, publishers of the fatly prosperous Des Moines Register & Tribune. Reputed...
...pain normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...
...messenger boy at $2 a week. After hours he stayed awake only long enough to study his music lessons. When he rose from messenger boy to vice president and finally (in 1927) to president, music was the most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus, still rehearses it Monday nights and conducts its winter and summer concerts. He has been guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the Philadelphia County Prison Band. Composer of hundreds of choral works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down...