Word: organizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...
Glorified House Organ...
However, the legal set-up of The B.U.News by definition precludes freedom of the press. The News was conceived of and founded as a University newspaper, a glorified administrative house organ operated by students. The administration both appoints and pays executives of the paper, and, as publisher, is legally responsible for its content. The controversial Section J of the paper's constitution, which allows the administration to review copy "for accuracy," is merely a logical and understandable restriction by the employer on the employees. To strike Section J from the paper's charter would give the editor-in chief...
...probably had no advance knowledge of the article. The Russian embassy carried its indignant reaction to the government anyway. With that, Tito's regime, anxious that cold water not be dashed on its currently warmer relations with Moscow, banned the offending issue. And Yugoslavia's party organ, Kommunist, blossomed with appropriate expressions of shock, denouncing Author Mihajlov for "misuse" of Russian hospitality and Delo's editors for lack of "good taste...
...numerous species of traps use ingenious methods to cover the insects imprisoned in the blossom with the sticky pollen that they carry to the flower's close-at-hand female sex organ as they try to escape. After a night inside the Aaron's-rod flower, mosquitoes find themselves literally snowed under by pollen, while flies caught by the lily-like arms of another trap flower must wade through mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside...