Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Army had pulled up along the narrow Mulde River, a western tributary of the Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
...informal Crimson teams that will enter intercollegiate competition this spring includes baseball, track, tennis, and lacrosse. Both baseball and track practice sessions are expected to be held indoors as soon as the spring term gets under way. In accordance with the wartime H.A.A. ruling, the 50-mile traveling radius will be observed as usual in all athletics...
...defense, once the robombs are launched, is probably alert spotting and pursuit by fighter planes. (Against this defense, V-1 is usually camouflaged with dark green paint on top, light blue underneath.) A Washington rocket expert of the Army Air Forces calculated that within its aimable target area-a radius of 25 miles-the chances of any individual's getting hit by V-1 are one in 15,000,000. Londoners have learned that at its approach it is essential to: 1) get away from glass, if indoors; 2) hug the ground, if outdoors (see MEDICINE...
...schedule for the 1944-45 hoop season. In a friendly gesture designed to cheer wounded veterans, games have been scheduled with several Service Hospitals in the State. These games will be played in addition to contests with Army and Navy teams and college outfits inside the 50 mile radius set for informal Crimson teams...
Meanwhile, over a radius of 35 miles, the crater has laid a blanket of ash, like black snow. It blackens people's faces so they look like coal miners, crushes roofs, kills trees, in some places is piled to rooftop height. Near the base of the crater, where the scientists, keeping an eye out for falling bombs, have been working, steam and gas pours from deep holes (fumeroles) with red-hot sides. Said Dr. McGrew: "This seemed like a glance into Hades." Though El Monstruo has spread terror among the Indian natives, birds and animals seem unperturbed, and spiders...