Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When concentration of alcohol in the blood is below 0.5 milligram per cubic centimeter (achieved by the highball, Martini or three beers), even the most sensitive drinker displays no ill effects. Above a concentration of 1.5 mgms. every one is drunk. Between these rates lie in dividual variations of sullenness, hilarity, recklessness and melancholy. Hence, Dr. Haggard proposed that police set a stand ard of 0.5 mgm. as the "arbitrary dividing line between sobriety and an appreciable influence of liquor...
...shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb . . . aimed exactly right . . . would no doubt destroy a shelter which was safe against bombs weighing one ton. Nevertheless, I shall call a shelter bombproof if it will stand up to a one-ton bomb. ... A one-ton [gas] bomb will poison 120 million cubic feet of air, for example a layer [of air] twelve feet high and covering nearly half a square mile...
Prominently located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, this impressive structure of Georgian design will house the Graduate School of Public Administration, located in Hunt Hall. The exterior of this edifice, composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Chelmsford granite backed up by 300,000 bricks, has already been constructed...
...Milky Way galaxy, 600 quadrillion miles in diameter, to which the solar system and all stars visible to the naked eye belong. In it the neutrons are so closely packed, according to Zwicky, that the density reaches the enormous figure of 6,000,000 tons to the cubic inch. Since the General Theory of Relativity imposes limits on stellar masses, Zwicky's new star must be exceedingly small to compensate for its high density. The astronomer estimates its diameter at no more than 60 miles...
...Announced by Secretary Steve Early was the President's decision that he was powerless to overrule Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes' refusal to allow the sale of 17,000,000 cubic feet of helium to Germany...