Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year's tithe amounted to only five cubic inches of grain, which was contributed to the Tecumseh Friends Church I and eaten by the pastor as breakfast cereal. The remainder of that tiny crop was sown on a 24-by-60-ft. plot of land given by Henry Ford, to whose thrifty imagination the lot-from-a-little scheme had strong appeal.* As the project burgeoned, Ford continued to donate the geometrically progressing areas of land, and at last September's sowing personally broadcast a peck of the symbolic wheat...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...
...business, tried their luck on Chicago real estate, began to dabble in Texas gas & oil. They saw a fortune to be made in waste natural gas. Texas oil wells within ten miles of the present pipeline alone were blowing it off at the fantastic rate of 200,000,000 cubic feet a day because there was nothing better to do with...
...contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights his own war in his own few cubic feet of earth, or water, or sky. . . . (PVT.) ROBERT LEE LAMBERT Camp Shelby, Miss...
...White Dwarf is so dense (specific gravity: 61,000) that a cubic inch of its substance weighs about one ton. Physicists believe that ordinary atoms could not be compressed to such density, and they suppose that the tremendous pressures and high temperature of the White Dwarf have broken up its atoms, letting their space-hungry electrons escape and leaving only the much more compact atomic nuclei...