Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. 7 in. deep?how many bushels of wheat will it contain, allowing 2,150 cubic in. to the bushel...
Detective-work by the New York Times revealed another letdown. "One of the 96 pieces of baggage carried by the [Royal] party is a satchel," cabled a Times correspondent ominously from Argentina. ["It] has a capacity of about one and a half cubic feet, filled with American cigarets of a widely advertised brand. From this satchel the Princes' golden cigaret cases are filled several times daily...
...throttle. His average time for the two trips- 245.733 rn.p.h.. faster by 14 m.p.h. than the late Sir Henry Segrave's previous world record. Next day in a little car he set a new world record of 94.031 m.p.h. for cars of less than 45 cubic inches piston displacement. Said he of both runs: "I was lucky. . . . The wet sand cut my speed down. . . . High speed is nothing if you have control...
...York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From 1918 to 1923 he was in charge of all helium work in the U. S. Bureau of Mines, from 1920 to 1923 a member of the U. S. Helium Board...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...