Word: radius
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Broadcaster of such news, and the first in the whole West to put it regularly on the air, was Mrs. Ida McNeil of Pierre's Station KGFX. Mrs. McNeil runs the only transmitter (200 watts) within a 200-mile radius of Pierre, the State capital. Her husband, Danna, a railroader on the Chicago & North Western, started it for fun in 1916. Ida took over in 1922, used the station to send out weather reports for stockmen and to let Danna know about the children when he made his run to Rapid City. She read her first hospital list...
...uttermost range of the telescope that astronomers may have to reconsider their theories as to the size of the star-filled universe. Ordinary photographs showed fewer & fewer nebulae out near the 500,000,000 light-year limit of range, and some scientists assumed that this might be the approximate radius beyond which lay infinite emptiness. But Astronomers Albert Edward Whitford and Joel Stebbins of the University of Wisconsin knew that the far-off nebulae were reddish (a spectroscopic phenomenon which makes many astronomers believe outer galaxies are moving away from the earth). They also knew that red photographs poorly...
What worries the Army and Navy more is the constantly widening radius of possible attack on the Canal. Whenever the range of bombers lengthens, that radius lengthens. Even the Coast Artillerymen who man the great, fixed guns at the Canal entrances place no great faith in such emplacements. No enemy fleet is likely to come within range while the Canal is still intact. Coast Artillery anti-aircraft men, although they could use more and better guns, have gone into the jungles, placed and manned what guns they have there, done a heroic job of soldiering. But they, too, have...
...veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within a 15-mile radius of the main station...
Whatever the planes, the lesson of the raid was simple. Its radius described an arc which included all of Germany proper, part of Poland's once-vaunted "industrial triangl," all of Polish Silesia, with its iron and coal mines and munitions factories, all of Bohemia-Moravia, the whole of Austria, Hungary as far as Budapest, and, at the very edge of the arc's lower end, Rome...