Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of all this effort is a new figure for the equatorial radius of the earth: 6,378,260 meters (3,444 nautical miles)*instead of the 6,378,388 meter figure that had been generally accepted. The Army says that the slight difference will be of use in predicting the orbit of the artificial satellite. This is true, but improved knowledge of the earth's size and shape will also be useful to dispatchers of long-range guided missiles...
...that they cannot find in the U.S. or in Western Europe. Finally, an American policy of extended trade with the Soviet Union would allow so-called "neutral" or non-committed nations, such as India, to breathe more easily. A relaxed East-West atmosphere would grant these countries a freer radius of action, and allow them to remain neutral with less fear of alienating either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R...
...rate of climb (2,500 ft. per minute) twice as fast as the average piston-engine airliners and a maximum altitude of 50,000 ft. It is so maneuverable in approaches that it can circle an airfield at 500 ft. in a radius of less than a mile; on one occasion a Boeing test pilot put it through a slow roll at 2,000 ft. The plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 engine, the most powerful (well over 10,000 lbs. thrust) in production in the Western world. (The J57 drives such key military planes...
...vacationing undergraduate will not be able to find accommodations within a 15-mile radius of Hanover during the 45th Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend...
...customers within 40 minutes' driving time) rather than smaller suburban areas. The first to go into operation will be the $30 million Bergen Mall at Paramus, N.J., expected to be the biggest U.S. shopping center. Puckett estimates that there are 1,588,000 customers within the 40-minute radius...