Word: outward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alsace-Lorraine: rural, albeit earthly-wise, natural type; not the type for a casual affair; eminently wholesome but, withal, drab. Luxembourg: a puzzle. With all the outward appurtenances of modernity they still are, well, provincial. Belgium: a decided improvement (especially in the Arlon-Bastogne sector). The female form begins to show signs of having been groomed for its primary purpose...
These were outward signs last week, two months after V-E day, that the econ omy of western Europe was still paralyzed...
...snake which swallows a frog as big as itself, Aviation Corp. last week contracted to pay $15,000,000 for a 64% interest in Crosley Corp. (Crosley's 1944 earnings of $3,300,000 exceeded AVCO's by nearly $200,000.) This big mouthful was the outward sign that two aggressive businessmen, in their different ways, were following the maxim "In time of war prepare for peace...
...makes bulls bulls. They developed a method for obtaining from some 40 Ibs. of bull glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them to roosterhood. It was also tried on a 26-year-old eunuchoid male who lacked all libido and most of the outward signs of masculinity (beard, deep voice, etc.). After 53 days of injections, both the sexual urge and the power to consummate it appeared. But the transformation exhausted Koch's supply of the hormone, and the patient lapsed into his former condition...
...flaming stake had been driven through Germany's heart, and by the laws of sorcery this should quiet the beast. In outward appearance Germany, once the most highly integrated nation of the Old World, was a quartered corpse. Perhaps 50% of Germany's proud cities were wrecked...