Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first debate of the season was held last Saturday in Emerson A against Johns Hopkins. A no-decision, organ-style debate, it discussed the following proposition: "Resolved: That the capitalistic economy of the United States should be replaced by a socialistic...
...human nose is an extraordinarily sensitive organ: it can detect as little as a billionth of a milligram of an aromatic vapor; the tongue needs at least a million times that amount in order to taste...
...chance to announce good news. Example: after long union agitation for pay raises for the Southern California aircraft industry, the War Labor Board decided to grant the increases. Douglas Aircraft somehow got an advance tip, and rushed through the presses a special four-page edition of the company house organ, telling all the workers how the company had won them a raise. The U.A.W.-C.I.O., caught flatfooted, limped to press a day later. Its claim for credit for the raise fell flat...
...suggest a full page in every interested news organ throughout the land, to impress this historic last paragraph upon a public which doesn't so much need full pages of studied information as it does full paragraphs burned deep into them...
...better caught the hang of his lordly speeches, the meaning of his crucial scenes. Magnificent in stature, magnificent if a little too solemn in manner, magnificent if a little monotonous of voice, Robeson did not bring to the part poetry and drama so much as sculpture and organ music. He was not so much Othello as a great and terrible presence...