Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...male, though decorative females may be taken along for plot purposes. According to a symposium of psychologists which met in New York last week to discuss the public's notions about space flight, this athlete-type spaceman is miscast for the part. Every ounce of weight and every cubic inch of volume will be precious on a spaceship. Big, strong crewmen will not be welcome. Only brains to act as computers will be needed, plus an absolute minimum of supporting tissue...
...device is a wallboard box, about one cubic foot in size, which contains a smaller box made of galvanized iron. Between the two boxes are alternating layers of rock wool and steel wool. A tube from the inside draws off the accumulated orgone...
Warheads on air-to-air rockets, which can be carried by such interceptors as the null null and F-102, can be set to give a predetermined yield of bomber-killing heat, radiation and shock effect; a single burst can make an area of two-to-five cubic miles uninhabitable by an enemy bomber. Moreover, an atomic rocket can down a low-flying enemy bomber while causing only minimum radioactive contamination of the ground area below, since new warheads have been designed with a low fallout yield...
First, Dr. Southam used Novocain to anesthetize an area about three inches across. Into the middle of the area he stuck a tattoo needle that left a blue dot for a reference mark. Out of a vial and into a hypodermic syringe he drew up a cubic centimeter of pink fluid-mostly water, but containing millions of cancer cells from human victims of the disease. The cells had been grown for years in test tubes by Dr. Alice E. Moore, Sloan-Kettering tissue-culture specialist, who had carried the cells to Columbus herself -in her handbag...
...adman to make even the also-rans sound like world-beaters. But Chevrolet and Pontiac had easily been the week's winners, and the Chevrolet-makers could claim to have reached an automotive milestone: the first U.S. stock auto engine that can put out one horsepower for each cubic inch of displacement without benefit of a supercharger...