Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic-thermonuclear revolution in firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
...that "the contest for positions is the keenest it's been in years." The second five beat the starters in two scrimmages earlier in the week. These ten men, all of them juniors and seniors except Bowman, will play the leads on this tour; of some stature, their average height is a little over six feet...
While Washington authorities hurriedly appointed a three-man madiation penel to bring an end to the strike which has silenced the City's journals just at the height of the Christman shopping season, the City's photoengravers still sought a weekly wage increase...
...would be the height of folly to conclude that the new course on which the Malenkov regime has embarked is an abandonment of the top priority Stalin gave to heavy industry," Fainsod said. "The new Soviet peace line is an old line," he concluded...
...star of the show was Norma, a statue by Sculptor Abram Belskie, whose measurements approximate those of the average U.S. woman age 20-24. Specifications: height, 5 ft. 6 in.; weight, 123 Ibs.; bust, 33.9 in.; waist, 26.4; hips, 37.4. As described by Anthropologist Harry Shapiro, Norma, following the general U.S. trend, has greater height, a heavier waistline and narrower hips than the women of previous generations. But, though taller than her grandmother was, Norma is still dwarfed by the present-day fashion ideal. Dr. Shapiro doubted that Norma would get much taller in the future, since the U.S. process...