Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contralto Marian Anderson, appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall, had to turn away from the audience twice to sing to the 1,200 music lovers crowded on narrow benches in the organ gallery behind the stage. The overflow of fans had stood in line most...
Since the dawn of modern medicine the vermiform appendix has seemed to be a completely useless organ. This week, the University of Chicago's Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson suggested that a use for the appendix may have been found...
...career under the auspices of the family cook, who taught him to read and play hymns on an old melodion. His education continued under the mathematics teacher at Lawrenceville School, where Thompson's father taught English. The teacher let Thompson turn the pages for him when he played the organ for morning chapel and also gave him lessons. Upon his sudden death Thompson had to take over the job of playing the organ for chapel. "I was scared every morning, but the repetition eventually cured me and I haven't had stage fright since," he recalls, "not even...
...before, U.S. reporters in Belgrade had cabled more explicit views by Comrade Popovich. In Tito's theoretical organ Kommunist, a few weeks before setting off for Washington, he had written a long piece about the irreconcilable struggle in the world between Marxists and U.S.-led "imperialists." Excerpts...
...cell door has been left open. He creeps down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach out for him from the shadow of a tree, and the jailer steps forth to inquire, "Why did you want to leave us on the eve of your salvation?" The prisoner then finally understands that he can never escape. His spirit broken...