Word: radius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers of Saskatchewan may be poor but they have spirit and imagination; concerts, dances, bazaars scraped up the money to send thousands of boys and girls in overalls and homemade dresses from schools within a radius of 200 miles to Regina, the provincial capital, for a glimpse of their King and Queen. Lacking the money for the fancy decorations of the East, the resourceful townspeople decorated the lampposts with sprays of wheat. Doubly welcome were the King and Queen for with them came rain for dusty fields. That night at little Moose Jaw, despite rain and the exhausting ceremonies...
Last week RCA-NBC television station W2XBS, after a not-too-impressive month of scheduled telecasting of variety, short plays, films and sport to the 900-odd sets in its 50-mile radius, announced that Referee Donovan's kindly wash was coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs...
...Each D. U. causes the car to require a longer turning radius ... for dry concrete pavement 80 feet longer for each D. U. carried. Thus you can make only one-fourth as sharp a turn at 50 as at 25; one-ninth as sharp...
...report drafted by Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn would place a standing force of U. S. planes, submarines and perhaps capital ships where they would be within practical fighting distance of 1) the Carolines, 2) the Philippines, 3) Japan-all well within an effective 1,500 mile radius of action. It would also make possible cooperation with Britain's air and seapower at Singapore in case Japanese tried to seize the Philippines and go on toward British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies...
Most of the visitors are sheltered in camps pitched within a ten-mile radius, the fun-spot being the semipermanent Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) camp midway between the old town and the party grounds. Every night up to 100,000 Nazis who are to perform before the Fuhrer on the morrow are bedded in barracks at the Party Camp adjoining the broad Lake Dutzend and buildings. Pending the completion of super-colossal March Field, Adolf Hitler this week had to be content with the Zeppelin Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress...