Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Report that caused the smile was an official calculation that in July pollution of Manhattan atmosphere was 1.59 tons per cubic mile, compared to 1.21 tons in July 1932, 1.38 tons in July 1931, 3.82 tons in July 1930. Many a shrewd commuter has privately maintained that he got his best check on current business conditions by counting smoking v. smokeless factory chimneys from his train window...
...pressure. Such was not the case. In most samples there was even less nitrogen than is soluble in whale's blood at atmospheric pressure. Peering through his microscope, Scientist Laurie discovered why. He found that whale blood teems with tiny free-swimming organisms, 20 millions of them per cubic millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson...
...staff patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions, had purposely neglected the sick and the healers until the last...
...puffs are nebulae traveling 12,000 miles a second. Cosmic rays include flashes of light (Millikan photons) from that explosion, and chips of matter (Compton electrons and/or protons; TIME, Jan. 9). They equal one-tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal to about one-thousandth of all matter, making it "extremely probable that the whole of existing matter is involved...
...radiogens spaced like stars, as suns in infinite miniature." The "interstellar" spaces absorb the intense heat of his radiogens, he reasons. The nucleus of his theoretic radiogen "would theoretically be a molecule of iron." Dr. Maria Takles, a Crile associate, figures four billion radiogens in a cubic centimetre of muscle...