Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people he was unsatisfying. Observers wondered: How would he do before...
...Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane, grind it, mix it with broth, centrifuge it (a centrifuge is a high-speed whirling machine which acts like a cream separator). The vaccine is then ready...
...since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese press which is closest to the Foreign Office began making fresh overtures...
...swarm of tiny home-built sloops tugged at Prince George Wharf in Nassau one morning last week, bobbing lazily on the swells. For days the native grapevine had hummed through the outer islands of the Bahamas, carrying the news that "the King" was coming. Loyal island blackamoors streamed in to see him, unaware that the King was now only a Duke. In a tangle of livestock, cooking utensils and wriggling-black babies, they sat on their crowded decks, awaiting the "Rejoicin...
...Kansas editor, wearing the grey tweed suit and grey cap that he always wears in the mountains, looking more than ever like an apple dumpling with a smile carved into its outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...