Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human brain the cerebral cortex, whose outer layers are visible in pickled specimens as the familiar wrinkled folds which look like sweetbreads, is the seat of reason and intellection. It is also the seat of emotional consciousness. But consciousness is not a process; it is an end-product. The mechanisms which produce emotional consciousness appear to be situated in the diencephalon, a central cluster of organs which is enfolded by the cerebral hemispheres...
...Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
...diameters, four times more than the theoretical limit of clear definition. In fact, it goes beyond this more dimly and sees down to 100 atom diameters, about as close to the limits of infinite smallness as the seeing limits of the 200 in. telescope will be to the outer edges of creation...
...most widely exhibited photographs are, "Cook and Hen, Merlin," by Hugh G. Wagstaff, which received awards in Bolton and Manchester, England; and "Female Hen Harrier," by Niall Rankin, which shows a bird found only in Great Britain, in the Orkney Islands, and the outer Hebrides...
...Communist confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet...