Word: inners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...advertise or not to advertise: that question has disturbed the inner calm of the New York Stock Exchange ever since the nation's first market place began to feel the Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought...
...Majesty's Government. When BAAS continued its indifference, famed Biologist John Burden Sanderson Haldane also resigned from it, and Writer Herbert George Wells mercilessly made fun of it. For the last twelve years persistent efforts have been made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS inner council has changed its onetime "antisocial" attitude to one of thoughtful solicitude, the two organizations have merged. This year, therefore, sardonic Mr. Wells, who has an extremely wide if somewhat informal knowledge of science, turned up at Blackpool, had himself enrolled in BAAS...
With the exception of Sleeper's kick the Crimson offense was ragged. Real credit for the win belongs to the inner cordon of the home defense which repeatedly turned back scoring threats at the goal mouth...
Referring to Stalin's recent execution in Russia of Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) as abettors of Stalin's enemy Trotsky (né Bronstein), Dr. Goebbels snorted: "Every inner Bolshevist struggle is a family fight among Jews!* . . . We can discuss this question frankly only in Germany because elsewhere in the world it is a dangerous matter to mention Jews. . . . May the world act before it is too late...