Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled M. P.s were squeezed and jostled in their outer lobby by perhaps 400 unemployed who chorused "Down with the National Government!" until ejected by the 550 police. Meanwhile, in the House, Secretary for Agriculture Major Walter Elliot, pelted from the public gallery with green protest leaflets by the unemployed, exclaimed both in sorrow and in anger: "They do not grasp a single measure we are taking in their behalf...
...when precise Japanese army headquarters at Mukden suddenly realized that nobody was quite certain what all the shooting was for. Troubles of the past few weeks were supposed to be caused by a border dispute, but since the district between the Manchukuan province of Hsingan and Outer Mongolia has never been accurately surveyed, even Japanese maps never put the border in exactly the same place in any two editions...
Most notable disclosure in Farewell to Fifth Avenue is the statement that U. S. Society contains only some 225 names-of which 150-odd are known (presumably by the Vanderbilts) as "The Outer Fringe." Author Vanderbilt prints both lists, modestly but sensibly excluding himself from each...
There was new fighting in Outer Mongolia last week between Mongolian and Manchukuan troops. Details were scarce and the Nationalist Government in Nanking preferred to think of other things. And they had good news to think about. Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas, the Panchen Lama, or spiritual head, and the Dalai Lama or temporal head of Buddhism. British intrigue found the Dalai Lama more willing to listen to reason. The Panchen Lama fled to China, where for the past eleven years he has been traveling about in a bright yellow railway...
...following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief reason for the venthole: it permits equalized inflation of the two tubes...