Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very low bass--tones in the 20 to 50 cps (cycles-per-second) region--gives body, depth, and majesty to music. Such tones are produced by the biggest organ pipes and bass drums, for instance...
LUIGI FERDINANDO TAGLIAVINI of the Conservatory of Bolzano, Italy will speak on "Early Italian Organs and Organ Music" in Room 2 of the Music Building...
Surgeons operating in or on the brain have been more hampered than those working on any other part of the body by their inability to get a "dry field" to work in. The brain has a superabundant blood supply, and is more exacting than any other organ in its demands: if deprived of blood (and therefore oxygen) for more than about four minutes at normal temperatures, it suffers irreparable damage. At lower temperatures the brain can survive longer, so some neurosurgeons have operated while the patient's whole body was cooled. But others felt that the brain needed...
Strictly speaking, the Review is not a Yale institution but a literary offshoot, born on campus and nourished by the university. Yale undergraduates rarely read it, and the new faculty member who thinks it exists mainly to reprint his lectures soon learns otherwise. Nor is it a house organ; the university would no more dream of telling Review Editor John J. E. Palmer how to run a national quarterly than would Editor Palmer (Louisiana Polytechnic Institute '35) consider telling Yale President A. Whitney Griswold how to run a university...
...CRIMSON's relations with the Faculty had become overly cordial, and the paper showed signs of becoming a sort of independent house-organ. To remedy situation, the Confidential Guide To Freshmen Courses was born, which left some professors less than enthusiastic about freedom of the collegiate press...