Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most snakes "see hardly anything except objects in motion. Most snakes are nearly deaf too, so that their knowledge of the outer world reaches them largely by way of the little forked tongue, which is probably the most wonderful tactile organ in existence...
From Three Rivers, Mich., Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, successfully sent a letter to Pumper Stanley Jones, advertising copywriter for Gimbel Brothers department store in Manhattan, addressed thus: Mr. Stanley Catmeat Jones, Rags and metal, hides and bones, You can find him in at Gimbel's Writing ads for silver thimbles, If he don't get this it's a pity Way down there in New York City...
...University has hesitated so long in correcting the situation has never been explained. It has aready seen a vast sum go into the installation of a particularly fine organ. It is constantly laying out more money for the maintenance of a full-sized choir. If there are absolutely no funds on hand to make the slight improvements suggested, some statement to this effect should be forthcoming. But for the University to continue to ignore this problem is equivalent to its refusing to make the most of the opportunities which are offered by the facilities and the choir...
...immediately after the accident. Found a portion of the lung as large as a turkey's egg protruding through the external wound, lacerated and burnt, and below this another protrusion resembling a portion of the stomach, what at first view I could not believe possible to be that organ in that situation with the subject surviving, but on closer observation, I found it to be actually the stomach with a puncture in the protruding portion large enough to receive my forefinger, and through which a portion of the food he had taken for breakfast had come out and lodged...
...chiefly as a refining man and a bear for work. After Mr. Holmes was boosted into the presidency (by the Laphams), he saw to it that his $500,000,000 company was run on Holmes ideas. Last spring he even edited an issue of the Texaco Star, monthly house organ. Editor Holmes blistered the oil industry, collectively and individually, for its colossal sins and the issue raised a storm in the oil world. Directors who had never seen Texaco in the spotlight were alarmed...