Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ranging around the world from Dienbienphu to Texas City, the reporters moved along a wide radius of Government problems. The first question was expected: How did the President feel about Senator McCarthy's determination to cross-examine witnesses in the projected Army v. McCarthy hearings? The President stayed clear of the specifics, but he quickly stated the principle he would apply to the case: "In America, if a man is a party to a dispute, directly or indirectly, he does not sit in judgment on his own case...
...city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial theme-"Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof-is wide as the world; but the university's own official title is still proudly local-Columbia University in the City of New York...
Flanders last night, in acknowledging the H.Y.R.C.'s invitation, stated that the "one-man party" of McCarthyism has "a good deal of vitality within a radius of 400 miles of Chicago...
...awesome corollaries. For the benefit of Chicagoans, he pointed out that such a crater would swallow the whole of downtown Chicago. Within it could be placed "140 structures the size of our nation's Capitol." Around it would extend a circle of complete destruction three miles in radius (big enough to cover nearly all of Washington, D.C.). "Severe-to-light" destruction would reach seven miles far ther in every direction...
...experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival of civil rights." To translate clearly, the machine had to have some simple translation rules (i.e., how to choose one of several meanings) impressed on its "memory" apparatus. And Russian letters had to be converted to their...