Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meals an hour, and a tireless volunteer cleanup squad of 2,500 polished the parks to perfection at the end of each day. At night not a single Witness lacked shelter-thanks to 13,000 volunteers, who had been ringing doorbells all this spring in a 100-mile radius to find rooms. Many visitors were up early in the morning to walk miles around Manhattan, pushing perambulators and politely peddling their quotas of the Watchtower and Awake! before hurrying off to the assembly grounds. "This is the grandest of news," said Nathan Homer Knorr, head of the Witnesses...
...station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered a three-mile radius with fragments...
...frozen lake. While figuring theoretically how to lay out the 35,080-ft. track, they considered making it perfectly straight both up-and-down and sideways, but gave this up because the curvature of the earth (the earth considered as a sphere with a 4,000-mile radius) would require either a cut in the ground 35 ft. deep at the midsection of the track, or 35-ft. embankments at the ends. So the engineers compromised with nature by making their track a series of sections slightly less humpbacked than the earth's curve...
WHRB will increase the height of its broadcasting tower on top of Dudley Hall to "make the signal stronger within the listening radius of the station...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...