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...organ contains 1,447 pipes, ranging from a large sixteen-foot pipe giving low C, to a small three-quarters inch pipe giving high...
...back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page: "You've got to have some certainties...
...Sixteen people entered U. S. hospitals every minute last year. They represented one-fifteenth of the nation's population. Nine-tenths of the 8,646,885 entered general hospitals and stayed there an average of 13 days each. Of the children born in the U. S. last year, 38% were born in hospitals...
...Sixteen Canadian curling teams: an all-day match for the Gordon International Medal, emblem of the championship of North America; 211 to 176, against 16 U. S. teams; at Montreal...
...Sixteen million U. S. citizens were groaning: would the Depression never end? In Kensington, England, two old gentlemen called on a young girl at six in the morning, to notify her that she was Queen of England...