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...turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain size at a certain speed at a given time."- Professor Mark Hoyt Ingraham, University of Wisconsin...
...game of those days was started with a wedge. The field was 110 yards long and of the present width...
...aggregrating at least two feet for every 100 persons that the building will accommodate, including the assembly hall and gellery if such are to be used for other than school purposes, whenever the school is in session. No such egress shall be less than 3 feet 6 inches in width...
...fire-engine that could squeeze through the steel-post barricade standing at the entrance to the triangle could pass the parked cars with the greatest of case. The width is five car widths; with two lines of cars, therefore, three widths remaining,--which is enough for any one car or track or fire-engine...
...search for accurate information concerning man's physical makeup, anthropologists have been able to make actual measurements of many features, such as stature, head length, facial width, and the like. Many other characteristics of the individual, however, cannot yet be accurately determined. The shape and slope of the forehead, hair color, the color and pattern of the eye fall into this category...