Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 10 o'clock at night, it was darker than inside a cow and raining like hell. All over a 70-mile radius our planes were coasting down, red danger lights glowing on the instrument panels, indicating there was no gas reserve left...
Disappointing to many men was the announcement that for at least the first eight months of the year course they will not be permitted to live off the station as had been hoped. Neither can the 50 mile radius limit on travel be extended. However, more liberty off the station can be expected and Mr. Collins indicated that, through the efforts of Mrs. Elisabeth S. White of Harvard Committee on Relations with Wartime Personnel, accommodations will be ready for officers' wives when classes resume on June 14th. He also urged that midshipmen apply now for National Service Insurance, since cash...
...have we found it so essential to a comprehensive and complete picture of a world at war. Without the kind of reporting that TIME gives us, the machine gunner's vision of the world is limited to his sector of fire; the pilot's to his operating radius; and the rifleman's to the extreme limit of his own eyesight...
Typical of Britain's really public secondary schools is the Bishopshalt School in Uxbridge, a town on the fringe of greater London. Founded in 1907, the school normally enrolls some 470 boys and girls, aged 11 to 19, drawn from a four-mile radius. The school is set in a park off a quiet country lane-a century-old, red brick manse flanked by a modern wing containing five science laboratories, a domestic science kitchen, a large gymnasium with locker rooms and showers. Near by is a twelve-acre playing field...
...throat doctors in Chicago, "85% of the middle-ear injuries would be due to the shock pulse itself, only 15% to bomb fragments. Excluding other injuries, everyone within 50 feet would likely have ruptured eardrums with bleeding from the ear. . . . Among those in stores facing the street within this radius but shielded from the shock pulse by wall, door or partition, only half of i% would have ear injuries...