Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty the U.S. was to blame. There were no schools at all for 14,000 out of 20,000 school-age Navajos. But the nomadic Navajos were also at fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...
...measurements the earth's radius at the equator is 3,963⅓-miles. Too small, said Izotov; he calculated that in its thickest section the radius is about ½ mile more. The Izotov globe is flattened slightly not only at the poles, like previous globes, but at the equator. Thus the earth, like every ellipsoid, has three axes instead of two and must rotate with a slightly seasick motion...
This would multiply the radius of blast (three miles for the Nagasaki bomb) by about the cube root of 100, or 4.6 times. An exercise in high school arithmetic proved that the new bomb would, under the best of circumstances, devastate something like 600 square miles. This was considerably less than twice the land area of New York City. Laski had been...
...World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest of powder magazines. Twenty thousand tons of TNT can be kept under the counter of a candy store...
...month following President Conant's February 12 plea for help in locating accommedations for married veterans, the Housing Office has received replies from 220 of the 16,000 alumni within a ten-mile radius of Harvard Square...