Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most beautiful women in America are at the colleges in the 15-mile radius around Boston, Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post cover illustrator, said yesterday...
...Super-Sabre's performance has been given only in round numbers. Its speed: "supersonic"; its operating radius: 560 nautical miles; its service ceiling: 50,000 ft. Besides fighting other fighters, it. can serve as a fighter-bomber. Structurally, the F-100 makes liberal use of titanium. It has an elaborate air-conditioning system to protect the pilot from the heat generated by high speed, and a drag-chute keeps it from running off small or slippery fields...
...would like to have more Western applications--although he personally feels that currently no matter how many applications Columbia receives, it will stick to its ideal three part ratio: one third of the students from the metropolitan area, one third of the students from within a 50 mile radius, and one third from the rest of the United States. This ratio, however, is right now more an ideal one than a working one, for in the present freshman class, the ratio goes 45 percent to 30 percent to 25 percent. No one around the school will outright admit...
...another. Instead, they cling tightly to one another with a force that is 1037 (ten trillion trillion trillion) times as strong as the force of gravitation. This force, oddly, has only a short range. At a distance of 2.5 x 10-12 centimeters (one four-thousandth of the radius of an atom), it diminishes almost to nothing...
Even at their most reasonable, the prices on top-quality antiques are usually so high that by the time U.S. dealers pay shipping and overhead costs they have no profit left. The U.S. antique market, meanwhile, has become overstocked. "In a five-mile radius of New York," says Alfred Phillips of Manhattan's Symons Galleries, "there are more good available antiques than in all the rest of the world put together...