Word: radius
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Harvard has no gold course. Although at least seven public courses are within a ten mile radius of the Square, none of these is serviced be a direct bus line...
...Blue Hills site is the highest point in eastern Massachusetts, and thus the station will be able to cover a 65-mile radius. Central studios and offices will be in Symphony Hall, while cooperating colleges and universities will house auxiliary studios...
...miles in a 60-ft. railroad car. For a truck carrying half as much mail, the cost is 30? a mile plus terminal handling charges. Last week the Post Office said that it would soon start using trucks, instead of railroads, for short hauls within a 200-mile radius of big cities. Truck routes have already been laid out around Boston and St. Louis, with plans for nine other big-city areas to follow. Eventual revenue loss to U.S. railroads, already hard hit by truck competition: $100 million a year...
...super-bomber, says the Air Force, must have a combat radius of 5,000 miles with a bombload of 10,000 lbs., should be able to hit 500 m.p.h. at 55,000 ft. It must carry guns and, perhaps, air-to-air guided missiles, too. But its principal defenses will be altitude and speed. Interceptors are faster than bombers, but if a bomber flies high enough and fast enough, a short-range interceptor has a hard time getting into range before its fuel is gone...
...attention was wrenched abruptly skywards. In three sections of the city, a local survey showed last week, soot was piling up twice as deep as it did in Pittsburgh in the days when Pittsburgh was a standard joke. One expert estimated that the annual fall of soot within a radius of 40 miles from New York City might be as high as 384,000 tons a year. And what disturbed New Yorkers most of all was a new test which showed they sucked in about 185,000 particles of dirt at every breath, including large draughts of such unpleasant byproducts...