Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey of the Navy's latest acquisition, Saipan, pointed out at week's end that the southern Marianas are roughly 1,500 sea miles from Japan, China and the Philippines. For Tokyo's benefit he added that "1,500 miles is considered a fair operational radius for the fleet. That is an opportunity of which we will take full advantage...
This was a sharp sentimental blow to China. But militarily it meant little-whatever the Japanese claims. (Said Tokyo: Loyang's fall had "dealt a mortal blow against the U.S. air units . . . vainly seeking air bases within flying radius of the Japanese mainland...
This week that boy is two full weeks closer to the news from home-for we have just extended the radius of our Pacific Edition 4,000 miles beyond Honolulu by printing part of it in miniature size. This "Pacific Pony" weighs less than an ounce, travels by first-class mail-and the Army and the Navy are so interested in its morale-building value that they are distributing it to our task forces and all our advanced bases in the fastest possible...
...after then we can forget, to an extent, 0658 physical training, Cowie food, rough rolls, infantry tactics, and 1945 musters. The weekend exploratory missions originating in B. O. Q. will no longer be confined to the USS Statler, Parker House, and similar habitats, but will greatly increase in radius and impetus under the aegis of New England spring and summer...
Because of the fact that the Navy V-12 Unit has refused to authorize cuts of college classes for undergraduate sailors, the teams will be largely limited to a 50-mile travel radius, and Brown and Worcester probably represent the south...