Word: cubic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into distinct departments is a reflection of the high specialization in civic design in this country; in many foreign countries the distinction between architect and urbanist is considered artificial and dangerous in its encouragement of an overly technical and mechanical approach--planners computing the incremental cost of the necessary cubic feet of air per average inhabitant in a sanitized superblock--without regard for the human element involved...
...universe's origin, he explained. "Evolutionary" theory holds that all the matter that now exists was once concentrated in a single mass that may have been no bigger than the earth's orbit. This "primeval atom," whose density must have been something like 2 billion tons per cubic inch, disintegrated 20 to 60 billion years ago. Its matter turned into hot, rapidly expanding gas, and stayed in this condition until about 9 billion years ago. Then the gas began to condense into the billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, that make up the present-day universe...
Hypothesis II. The second theory is known as "the steady state universe." It holds that matter is still being mysteriously created in the form of hydrogen gas. Matter appears at the rate of a few atoms per year in each cubic mile of space. As the galaxies fly apart, new galaxies form out of fresh hydrogen in the widening gaps between them. These galaxies in turn grow old, fly apart and leave the space between them free for the formation of another generation...
...isotopes. To find underground water, which is plentiful in the Middle East, the U.S. will supply isotopes of the kind used by oilmen to trace pipeline leaks. They could map extraordinary untapped active reservoirs, such as the hidden river below the bed of the Nile, which carries 560 billion cubic meters of water per year, or six times the flow of the mighty Nile itself...
...signed contract with Pan American International Oil Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). Pan American will invest $60 million in a 1,540-sq. mi. section of Santa Cruz and Chubut Provinces. For the first five years Pan American will get $10 for each cubic meter of oil it produces for Y.P.F., then the price will gradually be adjusted to match prevailing world prices...