Word: inners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lick Skillet Dialogue. Cohn believes that most Southerners only faintly glimpse the inner lives of the Negroes by whom they are surrounded-Negroes who live apart in sections with such names as "Lick Skillet," "Spot Without a Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example...
Last week, Chief Minister K. C. Reddi of Mysore escorted Lord Mountbatten, India's Governor General, and Lady Mountbatten into the inner temple of Sri Ranganadha (Vishnu) near Seringapatam. When they left, Priest Archaka closed the inner precincts and began cleaning up after the Mountbattens. He washed down the black stone idol with water and then with milk, chanted prayers in the oldtime purification ceremony. Irritated, the Mysore government ordered the conservative Archaka to suspend the ceremony and reopen the temple. The Governor General was thus implicitly raised at least to the new level of the Untouchables...
...outsider, not one of the Nanking inner circle like Sun Fo. Though he was famed as the Chinese commander who had smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not the Gimo's choice. There were roots of distrust reaching back to 1929 when Li led a brief defection of Kwangsi generals. But his strong words made him a rallying point for all the non-Communist dissatisfaction in China-intellectuals, army officers, northerners whose lands had been overrun by the Reds...
...planets, for instance, revolve in the same direction and in almost the same plane. The four inner ones (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are smaller and denser than the outer ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Perhaps the most remarkable peculiarity is that the outer planets possess almost all the "angular momentum" (energy of rotation) in the system. Any satisfactory theory of the solar system's origin must account for these "regularities...
...Great Grab. The sharp difference; in density between the inner and outer planets he accounts for in another way. The sun's atmosphere was hottest toward the center and cooler farther out. As the gas gradually condensed into solid particles, only substances of high boiling point (metals, mineral compounds) could condense in the hot inner regions. This accounts for the high density of the inner planets. Only in the cool outer parts of the system could light compounds like ammonia and methane get together in masses. The outer "protoplanets" grew faster; they were formed from more of the compounds...