Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet. R. C. A. says that any bright person can learn to get good results with it in an hour. Last week R. C. A. was ready to market the new model to research institutions. Price: $9,500 an instrument...
Because of recent dry weather, the work is progressing under very favorable conditions. Parkhurst said, adding that the excavations should be completed within the next few days. The University construction gang is using 10 trucks and a "steam" shovel to remove the 10,000 cubic feet from the pit, which will be 28 feet deep on its Quiney Street side and 21 feet deep on the Widener side...
...entered its second year, it was fought, at last, as it was originally pictured by its direst prophets, in a vast three-dimensional battlefield-over some 1,000,000 square miles of land and sea, in some 5,000,000 cubic miles of western Europe's air space. In twelva months the Germans claimed to have destroyed 6,950 enemy aircraft while losing 1,050 of their own, to have dropped 5,000,000 bombs. The British said Germany had lost 3,945 planes in a year, to 1,012 British. Last week the Russian Army's official...
Canadian newspapers demanded to know whether men working on new camp buildings had helped the prisoners by furnishing tools, lumber for the tunnel and parts for the radio, how the prisoners had disposed of the 30 cubic yards of earth taken from the tunnel. Some people wondered why the whole troop of prisoners had not crawled out through the tunnel. And for three days Canadians wondered where Lieut. Koche...
Other cathedrals in the world are longer, wider or higher. But if Manhattan's three-fourths-finished (48 -years -a-building) Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine were sunk in the Sea of Galilee, it would displace more water than any of them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with...