Word: exteriorly
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...Oceania and Africa, sculpture serves mainly for the representation of native gods or ancestral spirits who are thought of as forces for good or evil in the tribal life. There is no incentive to represent these gods in terms of exterior reality as we know it. Primitive man tends to think of matter as something which can conceivably change its nature in almost any particular, and in ways that originate in the most accidental associative processes...
...center role, and he builds it up with a sort of vacillating adroitness--ever spurred on by vain ambition and pride, ever retarded by conceit and a weakness for cards--until the very shabbiness of the plot finally at the end wears through its dexterously constructed exterior, and the whole falls off into a gently exhilarating decline, both pleasing and agreeable...
...would be quite easy to draw a lurid and very vitriolic picture of the writer of said letter, based on the fact that often those who make a practice of building up a righteous and God-like exterior, are usually attempting to cover up an essentially dirty mind--his distortion of Nemo's girl, flask, and vacuum, into bawds, flasks, and vacuums, is enough for that--but I will be fairer to him than he has been to Nemo, and not judge him by his writings. I will only hope that he is a natural human being, as I feel...
Professor Samuel E. Morison '07, had advanced a plan to restore Harvard Hall to the exterior and interior design which it had when constructed in 1766. It is considered more practical to work on the Chapel, however, for Harvard Hall, besides being in continuous use for classes and lectures, is the larger building and would necessitate more work and expense...
...worth while, for it tends to prevent infection, which causes the greatest trouble in healing burns. For three days after the bath, attendants spray the raw patient with tannic acid solution and dry him with warm air from an ordinary barbershop blower- all this to toughen his exterior and thus keep out germs. Dr. Wells said that his method was especially successful after burns from gasoline explosions and ignited clothing, and extensive scalds...