Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Howard, a director. Best known Candler in Atlanta is another son, Asa Griggs Jr., who keeps a zoo with three elephants in the front yard of his Druid Hills estate. Last month Asa Candler Jr., reported to be in financial difficulties, put up his pipe organ for sale, offered his house to the Decatur (Ga.) American Legion and his zoo to the city. Week later the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered him to pay $10,000 damages to a woman neighbor who charged that a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo, devoured $60 in currency...
...casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said...
...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...
...vestibule of the ear, the organ which controls the body's static balance and is intimately related to sea sickness, is the first organ to become functionally mature-because the fetus needs it for floating safely in the waters of birth. At birth the ear's vestibule is as big as it ever will...
...presumption that the cause of angina pectoris lies somewhere in the heart, physiologists have studied that organ painstakingly. The first offshoots of the mighty aorta are two small twining arteries, called the coronaries, which feed blood to the hardworking heart muscle. If the bore of the coronary arteries is narrowed by disease or if cardiac circulation is otherwise interfered with, the cells of the heart muscle suffocate. The heart will stand for such maltreatment just so long. Then suddenly the heart "utters a piercing cry of distress." That cry is angina pectoris...