Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus," says Ferrero, "in a generation which believed only in the physics of force, [Talleyrand] rediscovered its inner significance. Alone in his era, he began to understand the paradoxical drama of the Revolution, with its sterile victories and wars that would never end because they had transgressed the limits beyond which force ceases to be effectual and destroys itself...
Franklin Roosevelt last week followed Winston Churchill's example and set up an inner War Cabinet. At its head he put the man who is his titular assistant, but whose only job traditionally is to preside over the Senate and wait around in case the President dies: Vice President Henry Agard Vallace...
Bakers kneaded flour and shoveled loaves by the hundreds into their ovens. Mechanics-"cannibals" to their officers -performed miracles of condensation, assembling one good vehicle from many wrecked ones. Cobblers made fantastic shoes, stitching old inner tubes for soles to Aussie felt hats for uppers...
Tires 100% liquid-filled, to weigh down the structurally light rear end of tractors, provide better traction. The 15% solution of calcium chloride in water will not freeze above -20°, reduces bouncing and sidewall buckling, requires little care because water will not diffuse through an inner tube as air does. The liquid distributes pressure to all parts of the tire, unlike a solid filler. The tire was developed by Goodyear, is not yet on the market...
...Asiatic dialects, Expert Lattimore's career is a colorful one. Now only 40, he has by turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore's appointment and the help he will direct bore new significance...