Word: organisms
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Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had been treated. He has also been one of the least consistent. He has been more conservative than British public opinion on such issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that...
...humans are ever exposed to such severe noise intensities. But some occupations (e.g., airline pilots, aircraft workers, riveters, boilermakers) require constant exposure to dangerously high sound levels. Such prolonged exposure, says Knudsen, results in a degeneration of the organ of Corti-part of the middle ear's acoustic apparatus-and a decrease in the number of ganglia, or nerve cells, in the ear. The U.S. Air Force's Dr. Henning E. von Gierke warns that continued exposure to 135 decibels of noise for longer than ten seconds once a day, or to 100 decibels for more than eight...
...love. In Akhbar, Nasser's highly publicized visit to India last spring played second fiddle to a story with the banner head: MAD KILLER SHOT IN SUBURBS. Nasser was further irked by Akhbar's juicy coverage of Cairo society divorces. Against this formula, the official government organ, Al Gumhuria (the Republic), went so deeply into the red that not even giveaway promotion schemes could pull...
...than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux pas that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
...sightseeing this way, isn't it?" said Dr. Fisher. The archbishop entered the three-sect Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Greek, Armenian, and Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...