Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems that the ice-cube cylinder keeps the "liquid" cold, without sterilizing it with water, and that the wooden keg keeps the whole business even colder. The thing stands 15 inches high, and looks like a "piece of furniture...
...small buildings, seldom larger than a half inch cube, are carved from molded blocks of savogran, a kind of plaster of Parts which dries quickly and firmly. Spires and towers are of brass, and fences are of copper wire...
Along with the new material, which he calls simply Poly-T ("There have been too many bum articles called plastic"), Tupper has developed machinery to press it into 25 pastel-shaded houseware items ranging from poker chips (100 for $1.98) to double-walled ice-cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered...
...Many thanks for the ice cube trays. They arrived in good shape. Now, I want to get a pair of shoes for our bureau's faithful chauffeur. I am enclosing the outline of his foot without shoes...
This would multiply the radius of blast (three miles for the Nagasaki bomb) by about the cube root of 100, or 4.6 times. An exercise in high school arithmetic proved that the new bomb would, under the best of circumstances, devastate something like 600 square miles. This was considerably less than twice the land area of New York City. Laski had been...