Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devils of Neurosis. The second great attempt at human balance came from the teachings of Jesus, which Author Mumford explains with a little help from Sigmund Freud. To a Roman world ridden with war, poverty and the brutality of the arena, Jesus "sought to bring the inner and outer aspects of the personality into balance by throwing off compulsions, constraints, automatisms." "No one else had spoken of the moral life with fewer negations or with so many positive expressions of power and joy." To Author Mumford, Jesus' healings of the sick are no miracles but works of "psychotherapy...
...firepower, with seeming skill and a full appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
...played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...
Less than 18 months ago, when Marines in the Solomons hung by their fingernails to the first breach in the enemy's outer chain, the enemy's naval thrusts were met desperately. Now the Navy hoped for nothing better than that the Jap should come out and fight...
...which are synthesized from coal, air and water. In the impregnating process, wood is pressed and soaked in a methylolurea solution, which is converted by the wood's acids into hard, insoluble resins. The wood becomes brittle, but this disadvantage can be partly offset by impregnating only the outer part of the wood, leaving a resilient core...