Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning of the 26th, Steve Dasovich, head of operations at the Buffalo mine, sent bulldozers to relieve pressure on the dam. It was too late for that, though. When they got to the dam a little before 7 a.m., it was gone. And 21 million cubic feet of water and God knows how many tons of mud and slag and crap were headed for the 16 little communities nestled along Buffalo Creek. Pretty soon, they were gone too. The flood swept down the narrow valley, 40 feet high, picking up automobiles and mobile homes and even houses. Even people...
...life forms that Viking's ingenious biology laboratory is designed to seek out. Eight days after the landing-an interval during which Viking will monitor Martian weather and seismology and shoot the mission's first color pictures-the ingeniously conceived and packaged laboratory (which occupies about a cubic foot of space) will begin operating. The surface sampler, a power-shovel-like bucket, will be extended from Viking by a boom that can reach 10 ft. It will scoop up a sample of Martian soil, which will then be distributed to three separate chambers of the laboratory. Using nutrients...
...free, but the freedom was that of the puritan aristocrat, not the anticlerical rebel. He was the exquisite ruler of little boxes, an incomparably more gifted Ludwig II who constructed his Neuschwanstein-swans, grottoes, secret chambers, opera house and permanent twilight-in the space of half a cubic foot...
...prince's special project is the use of 2.5 million cubic meters of water that is available each year from the Jordan River. Revelle said that Hassan advocated improvements in irrigation for the benefit of Israel...
City Manager James L. Sullivan last night urged the adoption of an amendment to the city ordinance that would boost the cost of water in the city from 26 to 44 cents per hundred cubic feet...