Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than let it be captured. In a panting, breathless five-mile drive, Rightists under General José Moscardó got possession of Tremp in time's nick, for otherwise the flood of water released would have swept away whole villages, drowned thousands in 247,000,000 cubic feet of water...
...Though in the past 46 years some $20,000,000 has been spent on Manhattan's great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, world's largest cathedral (in cubic capacity), neither its exterior nor interior has been completed. Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection...
From the research Dr. Drinker has been able to set standards of air purity which can be maintained by ventilation and which will ensure freedom of the workers from possible injury. The simple compound, trichlornapthalene can be present up to 10 milksops per cubic meter of air without ill effects. The more complex compounds, tetrachlornaphthalene, pentachlornap thalene, hexachloranapthalene and chlorinated biphenyl, can be present at safely only to the extend of half a milligram per cubic meter...
...small side as stars go, being officially classed as a "yellow dwarf." For a really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank as the largest star known to astronomy...
Because of its war potentialities the Government's helium sales program establishes-after critical investigation of necessity-yearly quotas for any nation that applies for gas. So far only one nation, Germany, has applied and its share for 1938 is 17,900,000 cubic feet, enough to fill the LZ-130's 7,000,000-odd cubic foot gas bag and compensate it for the loss of about 300,000 cubic feet each time it crosses the Atlantic on the airship's projected 18 round trips this year. As helium costs about 1? per cubic foot...