Word: radius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need it and if they show the same scholastic attainment as the student who comes from a distance and gets a much larger grant. If Harvard is sincerely seeking scholars if does not necessarily have to look for them in the middle west, they may be residing within a radius of a few blocks from the Yard...
...newshawks who remembered that Einstein's original universe was closed, curved and finite were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general...
...light years thick, formed in the shape of a watch, according to most recent data. It contains approximately 200,000,000,000 stars as determined by their gravitational attractions, but only about one billion are within range of the most advanced photographically instruments of today; while within a radius of 6,000 light years, which is the limit of the actual count now in progress, there are only about...
...greater Boston's population into the ranks of the carillon audience. The Lowell House bells are not ordinary bells. It is the boast of the University that "under favorable conditions" they can be heard for a distance of fifteen miles. Among the million men, women, and children in that radius there are many sincere, conscientious objectors to bells in general, and to extra-size, extraloud ones in particular. Now it may be argued that good bell music benefits the listener, even though he may not know it, but such an attitude smacks of paternalism. Besides, the University with candor worthy...
...what to do about motorists who insist on sounding their horns, or hooters, late at night. Last fortnight Leslie Hore-Belisha sent bobbies out on their beats with orders to warn all motorists who hooted their hooters between 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross. Last week he sent them out to arrest. Magistrates were told that it will cost scofflaws just $10 a hoot...