Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wound up to such a pitch that even the medieval headsman's ax, reintroduced by Nazis, has begun to seem tame. German Justice, the official organ of Minister of Justice Dr. Franz Gürtner, called last week for a harsher German punishment to be known as "living death...
Burly Max Amann directs Eher, the firm which publishes both Kampf and Beobachter. Fortnight ago another Berlin newspaper, founded by Jews, nosed the Realmleader's organ out of first circulation place (TIME, April 29). No man to take this lying down is Max Amann. Two years ago Employer Hitler made him President of the Chamber of the German Press with vast theoretical powers. They came in handy last week. Crystalizing them with swift pen strokes, Nazi Max ripped out and signed three decrees mak-ing himself on their face Master of the Press...
...hard-working head of Hammond Clock Co. of Chicago. Inventor Hammond has tinkered with electricity since he left Cornell in 1916. Though no bridge player, he invented a few years ago an electrical bridge table which shuffles and deals the cards. Though no musician, he saw that a pipeless organ would have many a practical advantage. Pipes require space, are expensive to install. Usually they anchor an organ for life, and changes in temperature will set them out of tune...
...Hammond organ can be plugged into the wall with an ordinary electric cord, costs less than 1?an hour to operate. Tone quality in a pipe organ is limited to the number of pipes. The Hammond organ can produce countless variations simply by setting a few switches and thus combining or eliminating the various electrical impulses which make the harmonics...
...prisons in his Mephistophelian laboratory. Pretorius forces the Baron to collaborate on a woman-monster by having the Baron's bride (Valerie Hobson) kidnapped until he consents. There is one scene in which Pretorius and Frankenstein make a heart for their she-demon out of the still warm organ of a young girl murdered by their assistant, and another in which they impregnate her with crackling life from a lightning bolt brought down on gigantic kite-cables. The synthetic woman (Elsa Lanchester) lives to demonstrate complete distaste for the monster intended as her mate before she is blown jnto...