Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of her labors, TIME'S morgue is now the repository for a mound of such neat notations as this one: "12,000 city street cleaners daily sweep up, pick up and otherwise put out of sight about 5,000 cubic yards of stuff ranging from dead cats to a load of TNT, and including wallets, personal mail, laundry bundles and an occasional keg of beer, as well as the more routine paper and just plain dirt (an average 112 tons of soot cover a square mile of the city each month...
...drew out a total of 60 cubic centimeters of blood in the two needles, about a tenth of what the average blood donor loses. By calculating the amount of .nitrous oxide that is absorbed by the brain, he determined the rate of blood flow. Thus he was able to measure the way the brain uses up its chief sources of energy: oxygen and glucose. Already he has demonstrated that unconscious patients use only half the normal amount of oxygen and glucose, that schizophrenics use as much oxygen for their irrational thinking as a sane person does for normal thinking...
...riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...
...last fortnight, Betty Lee was wheeled into the green and brown operating room. After cutting his way to the heart by conventional surgery, Dr. Smithy injected four cubic centimeters of 2% procaine into the heart muscle at the apex. Then he opened the heart wall, passed his valvulotome into the ventricular chamber, and cut away a segment of the thick tissue blocking the valve. That was the critical point...
...Various theories of stellar evolution tell how stars may be born and decline to stellar senility. Zwicky thinks that the last stage may be a star made up chiefly of neutrons. Since neutrons are very much denser than atoms, such stars might be only ten miles in diameter. Every cubic centimeter of their volume would weigh, Zwicky figures, about one million tons...