Word: outerness
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They are now being replaced in a number of industries by made-to-measure ear mufflers of smooth plastic, put out by Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves...
...signs of Japanese stress & strain add up to a choice of difficult routes to Tokyo: 1) by overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...
...their hand in Tunisia last week-and their hand was strong. After British Guardsmen and Commandos seized two hills commanding a highway to the naval port of Bizerte, the Germans counterattacked with artillery, planes and infantry, and they rewon the hills. The German plan was evidently to hold their outer defenses at any cost, while behind the lines they prepared for battles to come when the rains cease and the African sun dries the boggy Tunisian...
Vice Admiral Kaneo Sunagawa, just back from the fronts, advanced fearfully into the outer chamber. It was 10 a.m. The glare in the eyes of the Vice Admiral grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired...
Joseph Stalin sent a new Red Army into battle this winter. Moscow communiqués and dispatches, making this fact plain last week, also told more about the Red Army's command and methods than the outer world had ever known before...