Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benedict FitzGerald '08, of Cambridge, complained that he has no place to move the house in the Cambridge area because no residential land is available. He is searching for a "75 foot plot of land within the radius of a mile and a half of Harvard Square...
...computer at M.I.T., gave a pretty good orbit for the satellite. It is elliptical, carrying Sputnik to an apogee (high point) 583 miles above the earth and bringing it down to its perigee (low point) 143 miles up. Since both these distances are added to the radius of the earth (3,960 miles), the orbit is almost a circle, and a good indication that the Russian launching vehicle was not only powerful but precisely controlled...
Covering the Waterfront. In Springfield, Mass., a woman rushed up to Edward P. Hannigan, a tourist-booth attendant, breathlessly asked for directions to all the swimming places within a ten-mile radius, explaining that she had left her children at a pond and couldn't remember which...
Only about 800 Moslems live in or around Washington, but not only Moslems may profit from the muezzin's tape-recorded summons that loudspeakers will carry out to a radius of eight blocks five times each day: "Come to .prayer. Rise up to your welfare!" And in the last hours of darkness just before dawn: "Come to prayer. Rise up to your welfare. For prayer is better than sleep...
...Maximilian Schuler, a German professor of applied mechanics, discovered in 1923 that acceleration would have no effect on a hypothetical pendulum the length of the earth's radius; the M.I.T. device simulates Schuler's effect electronically...