Word: densest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people per sq. mi. Countries with densest populations per sq. mi. (as of 1955): The Netherlands, 858; Belgium, 753; United Kingdom...
Asked by the Air Force to design an extreme high-altitude research vehicle, Aeronutronic rocketeers concluded that if the vehicle could be lifted above the densest part of the stratosphere before it was fired, they could get the advantages of high-speed starting without the disadvantages of drag and heat. They got in touch with General Mills, Inc., which had developed enormous balloons of polyethylene film, asked if the company could design a balloon that could serve as a launching platform. General Mills could...
...issue of man versus society is stated so that even the densest teen-age should be able to tell that there is more in the picture than a couple of livid love scenes and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the first minutes of Eternity the sadistic and ambitious Captain Holmes says to Prewett, "You should know that in the Army it's not the individual that counts." The remainder of the film is devoted to a more subtle exposition of this theme, and that the only way the individual can make himself count is by preserving his integrity...
...differences in the common peril, an ancient trouble spot set them snarling at each other. The spot: the smoky Saar basin, a tiny wedge of the Rhine valley on the Franco-German frontier. Barely larger (743 sq. mi.) than Allegheny County, Pa., though its population (900,000) is the densest in Europe, the Saar has both strategic position and rich mineral resources, and it has been a tug-of-war ground for centuries...
...have to take another look at its draft law. He was absolutely correct. Congress might well take its lead from a scientist, trained in the empirical method of arriving at a conclusion. The test of practice has come up with that answer so many times now that even the densest experimenter should be able to agree with the simple and accurate hypothesis that this is a poor...