Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Cannon described his conclusive experiment. Using a cat, he severed all nerves connected with the heart, as well as all nerves connected with every organ which produces known hormones. He also cut the upper spinal cord transversely. The only nerves left intact were a few strands running from the spinal cord to the smooth muscle of the lower abdominal region. He then caused the fore part of the animal to struggle, and observed no change in the heart rate. After causing the hind part of the animal to struggle, however, he noticed a slow increase in the heart rate...
...WiIliam James Mayo (the elder brother) remarks in Cancer: "Inasmuch as the testis is the primitive organ of procreation from which the ovary is derived, it has a protective heredity behind it." Similarly the small intestine is less susceptible to Cancer than its newer connections, the stomach and large bowel...
...know that the book covers the events of one day among a group of Dublin bourgeois. Gilbert even knows what day it was: June 16, 1904. Each of Ulysses' 18 episodes, besides parelleling similar scenes in the Odyssey, represents a different Art (e. g. architects philology) and Bodily Organ (esophagus, heart) and is told with a different and appropriate technique (narrative, catechizing). With his running comment, frequent quotations, scholarly footnotes, Translator Gilbert gives you almost a substitute for the book itself...
...Party. Succeeding him in both posts is Vyacheslav Molotov (real name Scriabine), a squarejawed, pince-nezzed gentleman who looks not unlike the late great Theodore Roosevelt, is chiefly notable as an able newspaperman. In 1911, just out of prison, he helped found Pravda, now the Soviet's official organ...
...Five encountered extreme opposition last week from all sections of the Paris press except papers definitely of their own persuasion. Usually any man with the mandate of Prime Minister can count, no matter what his views, on the support of Le Temps, but last week even this most "official" organ turned against the Government. On every hand editors predicted that the Steeg cabinet would surely fall when it faced the Chamber of Deputies this week. Three politicians who had accepted posts under M. Steeg as under- secretaries were scared out, resigned, explaining lamely that "the complexion of the cabinet...