Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some one outside the inviolate reaches of the counter could check application blanks and answer questions before the customer reaches his destination. Prominently displayed signs are needed to remind students which tickets are immediately available as well as to announce the application dates for later contests. Finally, the unutilized outer-office wall might be equipped with a counter, post-office style, to facilitate the filling out of applications, leaving the main counter freer for the actual transaction. True, none of these suggestions means a better seat for anyone, but life inside the H.A.A. could be still pleasanter...
Henry A. Wallace will assert "We Can Have Peace" tonight when he addresses an audience that the AVC yesterday predicted would fill the Soldiers Field diamond to the outer limits of its 7,500 capacity. The program, on which the former Vice-President of the United States is the main speaker, will start at 8:30 o'clock...
Measuring the Eye. In Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
...financial and industrial concessions granted by the West in exchange for Arab oil and air rights are the very life blood of the dynasties masking as the Arab League. Further, any Arab withdrawal from the UN would leave the Egyptian complaint against Great Britain, now pending, hanging in outer space...
...Even in those days, the British got around. Long-Arm's mother was an English girl called Gyda, who was the daughter of King Harold. † When it grew too narrow, an outer wall was built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...