Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts," who are experts in nuclear physics rather than strategy or politics. The really frightening aspect of the H-bomb, as disclosed in Truman's speech and Finletter's interview, is that nobody within a radius of 9.8 miles of the White House has accepted a clear responsibility of thinking through the dreadful-but not hopeless-problems that the new bomb raises...
...areas for business and light industry. ¶A main shopping center (55 acres) conveniently located near the downtown business district. Some 500 applications for space have poured in from merchants; the city's shopping center will probably become a center for all of lower Bucks County within a radius of 15 to 25 miles. There will also be small groups of neighborhood stores (food, drugs, etc.). ¶Doctors, dentists, lawyers and other professionals will have a special building off the shopping center. ¶Streets are carefully plotted-through roads for fast traffic, all residences within easy, safe walking distance...
...bomb was unloaded at a small island, about 35 miles from Eniwetok. Ships of the task force ringed the island at a radius of about 30 miles on the morning of the explosion. Zero hour was 7:15 a.m., Nov. i. The men put on dark glasses, turned their backs and covered their eyes. Then the bomb exploded with the light of "at least ten suns," as a ship's navigator reported...
...Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius of U.S. Vanadium's property are seven other mills (see map) which produce virtually all U.S. uranium...
...recall that last spring, W. T. Radius [April 14] lent Eisenhower Cicero's advice to run ["Those whom Nature has endowed with the capacity for administering public affairs, should . . . enter the race . . ."]. Against his eloquent antagonist, however, the general could better use Cicero's art than his counsel. We may, perhaps, excuse him as Shakespeare excused the speech of another army man seeking office...