Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdraws blood from the aorta while the heart contracts, lowering the blood pressure within the heart and diminishing the organ's work load. Then, when the heart again relaxes and expands in the course of beating, the blood is swiftly returned to the aorta, restoring normal blood pressure throughout the system...
...three-hour spectacle-roughly two-thirds movie and one-third stage show-that is anything but just another overpromoted metropolitan gyp. The customers are paying for spectacorn, and the Music Hall stage is equipped to give it to them 144 ft. wide and 67 ft. deep. The organ, with 375 stop tablets, can sound like everything from a Chinese gong to a glockenspiel, and vibrates so profoundly that it probably shows up on seismographs in the Soviet Union. The fixed lighting system, with a 4,3O5-key control board, is still one of the most advanced in the world, making...
...church, and things looked up again for St. Paul's. The summer people turned to and put it in shape: a Denver store owner contributed paint and paid for painting, a doctor spent his vacation repairing the steps, a man from Columbus put in two weeks repairing the organ. Bats and rats were ousted; a new roof was put on; broken windows were replaced; the interior was replastered; and more than 50 people began showing up for Sunday services...
...what is at the end? The organ notes swell up. There will arrive a day of "the noblest and most just morality" once "the magnificent and enduring edifice of socialism" is built. There will be love of the socialist motherhood, "conscientious labor for the good of society-he who does not work, neither shall he eat"; "one for all and all for one"; "man is to man a friend, comrade and brother," and there is "honesty and truthfulness, moral purity, modesty and guilelessness in social and private life," and intellectuals will not be a group apart because all the masses...
Phyllis Shaw, a writer for an IBM house organ, Business Machine, finds city cycling enough of an oddity to provoke curiosity and generate sympathy. Once she dashed into a department store shortly before closing time without locking her bike properly, came out to find a strange man standing guard over it. "All he said was 'I'm glad you came back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office...