Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward A. Taft '50 is assembling a more elaborate station, with an expected transmission radius of several hundred miles. The range of most student transmitters is reduced, however, by a University restriction on antennas which will mar the scenic beauty of the Houses...
...were paid by Paepcke. During the first week of business, the gross return on this investment was about $2,500 a day (hotel rates ran from $4 to $14 without meals). With 25 lakes and 1,000 miles of trout streams within a 20-mile radius, Aspen should do equally well during the summer...
...galaxy is not in its stars at all but in tiny solid grains or separate atoms. This is what stars are formed from. According to Dr. H. C. van de Hulst from Utrecht, The Netherlands, the average cosmic particle is about one hundred thousandth of a centimeter in radius and deadly cold, only a few degrees above absolute zero ( -459.72°F.). When wandering atoms strike such particles, they freeze and stick tight...
When many people find a window broken in their homes, or new cracks in walls or ceilings, the chances are that any blasting going on within a fifty mile radius will get the blame. Every year, thousands of irate householders file complaints against blasting companies claiming that the vibration and concussion from their operations has damaged their property...
Hotels and lodging houses within a 50-mile radius received bulletins from Christy's office in this morning's mail with a full description of the vanished Freshman, but not word has been heard as yet from the alerted room clerks. Equally unproductive have been river-bank and harbor draggings in the Boston Basin...