Word: radius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dixmude, originally known as the L-72, was completed at the great airship works at Friedrichshafen, Germany, at the signing of the armistice. It had a cruising radius of 9,500 miles, a tank capacity of 11,000 gallons. Turned over to the French by the terms of the armistice, it was the pride of the French Air Service and held the world's duration and range record (TIME...
...hockey and also the triangular track meet with Dartmouth and Cornell. Application blanks may be obtained at the H. A. A. The official calendar of athletic activities for the winter term has also been published and mailed to all graduates on the application list within a fifty-mile radius of Boston. It is available to undergraduates at the H. A. A. and Leavitt and Pierce...
...gives 3.1416, the geometrical π. The number of of days in the year is deducible from the dimensions of an inner chamber. One of the interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius. Cheops is oriented to within five minutes of arc to modern latitude and longitude. Its meridian divides the Delta of the Nile and the habitable continents into two equal parts...
Paris and vicinity within 60 miles absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
...will carry a bomb 4 tons in weight, the biggest ever raised in the air. According to the designer such a bomb dropped in the center of a city will dig a crater 50 feet in diameter and destroy or damage all buildings within half a mile radius. The plane with an efficient crew will thus be the most formidable offensive weapon ever devised...