Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ulan Bator Khoto, capital of Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia, went Chungking's formal recognition of Outer Mongolia's "independence." By giving up all claim to what had once been her frontier province, China paid the price asked last August in the negotiation of the Sino-Russian Treaty...
...written; it contains at least two first rate themes: one starting the second half of the first movement, and the other running pizzicato through the andante mosso. The blown-up, excessively melodramatic performance (including the shaking, not vibrating, string) which Koussevitzky provides does not, however, penetrate deeper than the outer edge of the surface. However popular the interpretation may be, it cannot be considered valid; it stuns the audience, but it is not within a mile of the composer's intentions...
Since that evening last November, Friend's comet-of the seventh magnitude, just beyond naked eye visibility-has followed its looping course to perihelion (closest approach to the sun) and is zooming toward the outer reaches of the solar system. This week, as the comet emerges from behind the sun, South African astronomers who are on their toes may get a brief look-probably the last look from the earth...
...boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...