Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoyle, working on the same problem, approached it from the other end. In calculating how galaxies form, he assumed that all of space is filled with very thin hydrogen, about one atom per cubic inch. This gas is depleted, of course, when galaxies condense from it. But Hoyle was convinced that galaxies are forming continuously. So he calculated how much hydrogen must be supplied to keep up the formation of galaxies. His answer came out very close to the answer of Bondi and Gold. This check convinced both parties that the "continuous creation" of hydrogen in space is an actual...
...Loch Sloy scheme is the most ambitious hydroelectric project ever completed in Britain. Its quarter-mile-long dam pens up more than 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. It is expected to have an annual output of 115 million kilowatt-hours, most of which will be sold to Scotland's industrial Lowlands. Profits will subsidize lesser schemes which will eventually bring electricity to all Scotland...
...Christendom. In the Middle Ages, the hawking of spurious slivers became a scandal, and it was largely to reassure the faithful that a 19th Century Frenchman, Rohault de Fleury, devoted years to measuring the certified pieces still in existence. Their volume, according to De Fleury, was only 4,000 cubic centimeters, or about 2% of the probable volume of the cross...
...asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt-i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better parking space, merely loosened the brakes of the car while a friend pushed. The conscientious motorist was nevertheless picked up by police...
Last month they shipped three cubic yards of food and suplies down to Lima--including half a mile of rope, 200 vinylite bags, one copy of Sherwood and Taylor's "Calculus," and three cases of needle soup...