Word: radius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bounds" part of the statement was occasioned by the fact that the promulgators of the plan had issued a statement that though people might at first scoff at their idea, the war, when it got under way, would be audible to everyone within a radius of five miles...
...Detroit, boasted that, with no expensive advertising expenditures, his Michigan Memorial Park ''has received more publicity week after week than any other Detroit institution with the exception of the Detroit Tigers." Since Judge Heston built a loud organ in his cemetery, ''anyone driving within a radius of four or five miles of our Park hears this beautiful music floating through...
...never appeared this nude before, and my family don't know what to think." For Cleveland's 100-day combination of culture & carnival 1,000,000 tickets at 50? each have been sold in advance. Well aware that 26,000,000 people live within a 300-mile radius of Cleveland, and that only 40,000 a day are needed to make this Exposition a success, Promoter Dickey last week was in a thoroughly optimistic mood...
...Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that...
...excited by a report in Modern Hospital concerning novel use of ultraviolet light as an antiseptic agent in operating rooms. Over his operating table Dr. Hart had rigged a grid of light tubes which project an invisible light which within five minutes effectively kills almost all germs within a radius of five feet...