Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondent Matthews went on: "Perhaps the Italians are not too sorry Ras Kassa has slipped through their lines. They are not afraid of him any more, and his influence in Ethiopia may become enormous. He is regarded as the greatest figure within Ethiopia, although to the outer world it was the Negus, Haile Selassie, who stood for his country. This correspondent has talked to many natives, as well as to many excellently informed Italian and British officers and officials, and all agree that Ras Kassa is the most powerful man in Ethiopia. Hereditary priest, ruler and maker of Kings, power...
...definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat-faced, greasy Premier Gendun of Outer Mongolia and his Commissars, entertained them lavishly in the Kremlin, plied them with vodka, questioned them closely, made friends. Eyes on Map. Above what is effectively Chinese territory today (see map) lie Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia, inner Mongolia and Manchukuo. Sinkiang these days appears to be passing from Chinese into Soviet control...
...which Joseph Stalin has not altogether had his way. Stubborn, the Mongols have gradually talked their Russian patrons out of many Communist innovations unsuited to such nomads as themselves. Today Urga is emphatically the capital of Outer Mongolia, not a mere dependency of Moscow. Mongol Premier Gendun, while he was Dictator Stalin's guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon...
...scientists plan to obtain spectrograms of the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere and of the brilliant corona over a wide range of wave lengths. They will study especially the infra-red region of the spectrum, where present knowledge is only fragmentary...
During the eight week competition the business candidate gets a taste of the practices of the outer world where men are definitely working for their bread and butter. And the candidate is treated as one of them. The candidate's sales talk, or the letters to National advertisers which he dictates, are considered seriously, and the fact that he is still in college bears no detrimental influence...