Word: cubically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, 195,000,000 cubic feet of gas were consumed in a single day-a record...
...easier to remain standing than to execute the continued jack-in-the-box motion required under the present plan. And when ten large individuals are assigned to a row that nature and the carpenter cut out for only nine puny specimens, there is presented a problem of cubic capacity to which there is only one answer...
...that has never (under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether...
...Union. However, the sending operator must have a sounder in order to know what he is sending and whether all points are getting it. Accordingly, the usual sounder, which is an instrument about 5x3 inches in size, is replaced by a miniature sounder not bigger than a cubic inch. This is placed with an earpiece which rests over the sending operator's ear like a telephone head receiver. The operator thus hears the click of his instrument which is inaudible to others...