Word: radius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university is modelled after British universities, and each college has a number of houses to accommodate on-campus residents. If you live within a 15-mile radius of the university, you cannot reside on campus. However, each of the colleges is large, and has a dining room and cafeteria. The colleges are known for certain attributes. Trinity reveres its academic tradition, and academic robes distinguish the daily garb of its members. The University, in contrast, is known for its cafeteria political debates...
...area of up to one mile from ground zero, everything would be vaporized; destruction and death, even to those in the deepest shelters, would be certain. Initial heat radiation would be released in two separate pulses within a few seconds and would incinerate virtually everything within a five-mile radius. Although fog or industrial smog would greatly decrease the effect, exposed persons would suffer third-degree burns out to ten miles and blistering out to 15. Within seconds after the heat would come the blast wave; reinforced-concrete buildings might remain standing within five miles of ground zero, but conventional...
...several feet of earth or concrete. There would be blast and heat too, but if the N-bomb was just the right size and was exploded at just the right height above the ground, it would kill by neutrons without setting fires or blowing buildings apart. The effective radius of action would be small-1,000 yds. or so-because neutrons are rapidly absorbed by the surrounding...
...Denver has a natural drawing attraction," Chancellor Chester M. Alter (Ph. D. in chemistry from Harvard, 1934), said, noting that DU is the only private university within a thousand-mile radius touching St. Louis, the West Coast, Dallas, and Canada...
...ancient Metropolitan Carriage Act of 1869: each cab must be 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. long, big enough to seat five persons comfortably, high enough so a passenger can get in and out without knocking off a top hat, and have the ability to turn within a radius of 25 ft. Even worse: to qualify as a taxi driver, a candidate must pass a "knowledge" test proving he knows the location of every back street or mews in the sprawling city of London...