Word: radius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glasses were brought to bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...
...School has suddenly decided to sail for London on Wednesday to make a six weeks' study of the London county council system of federation in order to develop a working plan for the organization of a Metropolitan Boston which will satisfy all the cities, included within a 15 mile radius...
...advent of the motor car and the airplane has given the individual a new relation to his environment by establishing new and infinitely more profitable standards of time and distance. The motor car has changed man's radius of action from 30 to 300 miles a day, while the airplane has increased it to a thousand miles or more. These are substantial contributions to American life...