Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cube of ice and slice of orange, and fill with club soda...
...Test. In atomic lingo, a "nominal" bomb is the one used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...
When Shakuntala Devi was five years old in Bangalore, India, she liked to sit at the side of her uncle, who was studying mathematics at the university. As a joke, he told the little girl about cube roots. One day, when Shakuntala wanted money to buy candy, she offered to help her uncle with a problem in cube root if he would finance the candy. When he laughed, she promptly wrote down the correct answer on a sheet of paper...
...when Dr. Bullock moved his warm hand near the snake's pit, the sizzling sound increased "as if you had turned the heat up." A lighted match or cigarette produced the same effect. On the other hand, a cold object, such as an ice cube, cut the sizzling down...
...justify on orthodox grounds the assertion by Dr. Billy Graham that the three persons of the Trinity hold regular conferences in heaven . . . Then I would like Dr. Docherty as a mature Biblical scholar ... to support from Scripture Dr. Graham's assertion that heaven is a 1,600-mile cube containing trees that produce a different kind of fruit each month...