Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whipple claims that the solar system started with a sprawling system of dust particles. Light-pressure and gravity forced the system to collapse; the center condensed into the sun and the outer clouds coalesced into planets...
Since then it has survived innumerable internecine squabbles, but they have left their mark on the Worker offices. While the small city room is cluttered in traditional style with desks, typewriters, telephones and U.P. tickers, the outer office is different. Along the hall outside the city room are doors with no outside knobs; they can be opened only from the inside so no unwelcome strangers...
...world's outer reaches, fighting and violence flickered menacingly. A series of military coups and attempted coups ran like a fever through Latin America. In New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered; India's blood bath subsided in shocked dismay and its legislature legally abolished the untouchability which, in life, Gandhi had abominated above all of India's other woes. Under the purposeful hands of David Ben-Gurion, the new state of Israel was born on Judah's ancient soil. Its young armies whipped the Arabs into defeat, rested, and then at year's end renewed...
...Communist Party guide their main course on the basis of a hard core of theory, and have done so for 25 years with "amazing consistency." Around the hard core of theory is a hard layer of what Stalin calls program. Around this is a layer of strategy, then an outer husk of tactics...
...Wilson did not work acceptably for a year and a half. He predicts that the 200-inch will eventually be fixed. The first step will be the installation of a set of small fans to keep the temperature more uniform around the mirror. The mirror's outer edge may also be insulated with aluminum foil to make it respond more slowly to temperature changes...