Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Berlin radio boasted that Germany has a superbomb which could kill men by concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...
...repaired in wartime. The waters where the U. S. would have to fight an offensive war in the Pacific are Japan's waters - 4,500 to 6,000 perilous miles beyond Pearl Harbor. That is too far for the main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic rule which Navy minds have to ponder. By such rules, John Paul Jones in his inferior Bon Homme Richard could not possibly have whipped England...
...direct attack. Their aircraft, many of them of wooden construction, hold records for speed and altitude. Their cruisers and destroyers are supposed to go in heavily for smoke screens and seldom venture beyond the range of supporting torpedo planes from land bases. Lightly armored, many of the cruisers sacrifice radius of action for speed as high as 40 knots for the light types. These are for fighting in the Mediterranean, along with swarms of 50-knot motor torpedo boats and small submarines. Other cruisers, designed to raid on the high seas if and when Gibraltar and Suez are forced...
Planning to defend its unofficial title as world champion, the Widener baseball team has challenged "any library within a radius of 150 miles", according to its first baseman and manager, Frederick G. Kilgour...