Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much controversy over the political wisdom of making the speech as he did over the fiscal wisdom of what he said. Even his friends and advisers thought it was an unpalatable truth that no voter would swallow. But Willkie, off to the West for a look at his outer defenses from Wisconsin to Washington, could take heart. The pros were horrified because this strong medicine might be distasteful to the people. But perhaps the people were pleased because this strong medicine was distasteful to the pros...
...Journal of the A.M.A. Dr. Hans Selye and coworkers of Montreal have found that rats get the disease if they get an overdose of desoxy-corticosterone acetate, a synthetic adrenal hormone. Dr. Selye concludes that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...wheel is spiral rather than planar in shape. Its more well-known name is that of the Milky Way. The measurements of its various dimensions are highly accurate. Those of the sphere are far less certain since it is difficult to calculate the precise outer limit of the sphere. This is due to the thinning out of the stars along its outer fringes...
...Harvard Observatory. If was based upon measurements which used the large amount of cosmic dust present in our universe as a basis. These clouds of dust had previously puzzled astronomers. The astronomers were unable to tell whether they were looking at a region barren of stars on the outer extremities of space, or whether the view was merely cut off at some intermediary point by the dust clouds...
Elsewhere along Japan's outer defense periphery...