Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juniors and Seniors in Military Science have been selected as honor graduates of the Harvard ROTC, the Muzzle Blast, organ of the Field Artillery regiment, announced yesterday, and are eligible for commissions in the Regular Army...
Fellow Creature. In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend-a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started...
...from the gorge, the first strains of Christmas carols began to penetrate the static of our tight earphones. We could make out a beautiful chorus of clear, feminine sopranos. The static cleared away briefly and a ringing male tenor took up Come, All Ye Faithful. Then there was an organ, and after that the entire chorus joined him. After that there was some news and a commentator telling how we were winning the war. We didn't listen to that...
Like most of England's stately, drafty homes, Cliveden is almost unsupportable in wartime. The great drawing room with its piano and organ has long been closed for lack of fuel, and there is no wood for fires in the bedrooms. Food rationing has shortened weekend guest lists; the servant shortage hampers housekeeping. For two years past, a Canadian military hospital has been established on Cliveden's grounds...
Completing the program of carols will be "Alleluia" and "On Christmas Night." Then Bach's famed chorale with violin obligate "My Soul There Is a Country" will be presented. The organ postlude, played by Woodworth, will be the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...