Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...
...blast and fiery wind spreading out from zero would strip the walls and partitions from reinforced concrete buildings half a mile away. For another half mile, steel-frame buildings of the factory type would be wrecked. Even at a radius 1½ miles from zero, the brick walls of houses would be blown down. Many people spared by the blast and the flying rubble within the three-mile diameter of the seared circle would be killed or injured by the flash of heat and radiation...
There are some obvious sources of merry-making available in the envirous of this great metropolis. We cannot, however, take the space to list all the package stores within a ten-mile radius. Instead, this article is intended to touch upon some of the entertainment highlights which you could just as easily discover by scanning the pages of any Boston daily...
...addition to its course on "Enjoying Opera," the Adult Education Center this fall will offer classes encompassing over 60 other topics. Ranging from the "A B C's of Investments" to "Life Drawing," these topics will attract nearly 1300 adult students from within a 30-mile radius of Cambridge...
...short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal over a radius of 65 miles...