Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
...Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take...
...Cross, prepared to deal with reparations and relief unassisted. Estimators were busy. Damage cost was put roundly at $18,500,000. With fine exactitude the number of homeless was put at 3,952. Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava...
...first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat. . . . Merciless cold driving through the canvas walls of this flying tent. ... I have visualized myself gracefully draped over a saloon window ledge romantically viewing the moonlit sky. The men . . . have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have...
Those not scientists, however, have only a skimpy idea. So, since natural history museums should educate as well as collect, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan had Curator Roy Waldo Miner reproduce in wax and glass a cubic half inch of pond life. The exhibit was opened to the public last week...