Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plug is a joint product of Harvard and the University of California. It is made of soft vinylite plastic, fits into the outer ear with flanges both inside and out, to seal off air waves and hold it in place. It has heretofore been made exclusively for Navy gunners and Army artillerymen, but may now become a major item in speeding up plane production...
...this week the Allies had smashed deep into the Low Countries and U.S. forces probed at the outer hedgehogs of the Siegfried Line. This week battles would boil on German soil...
Fielding sensation of the summer base. The initial sacker handled 104 chances, making but one error, for a .990 fielding average. Capaccio and Art Conlon, the left fielder, both played errorless ball in the outer pastures...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...service canteen with her fellow troupers and husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, who reported that slie had trouble figuring out the exchange of Egyptian piasters and U.S. dollars until she asked a bystander to help her. Wrote Kostelanetz: "He gladly did, and we learned afterwards that our 'financial straightener-outer' was . . . Farouk, King of Egypt...