* 1950 DA-an approximately 1-km wide asteroid with a possible Earth impact in 2880 ( initially studied by Ostro, Jon Giorgini, Lance Benner, and Scott Hudson ).

* March 18 – The Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante achieves the first sustained 1-km ( 0. 621-mile ) human-powered flight, with a catapult launch.

On routes 8 and 8A ( later to become route 82 ), buses have to travel up a hill, which includes covering a 1-km road with a gradient of 1: 10.

The 5. 1-km Montenvers Railway is a cog railway that provides access to the tourist site of Montenvers.

In spring, a 1-km cherry blossom tunnel is formed from the entrance to the facility compound.

The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 around 1-km < sup > 2 </ sup > islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, most of which have no indigenous people, many of which are naturally under water at high tide, some of which are permanently submerged.

The speed limit risk ratio was 1. 116, which means that a 16. 1-km / h ( 10-mi / h ) increase in the limit yields a factor of ( 1. 116 )< sup > 10 </ sup > or 3.

It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.

The mouth was thin-lipped and wide, the long cleft in the upper lip like a slide.

Cut a strip of clay for sides long enough and wide enough for three impressions of mold design.

Handle for creamer is a strip of clay 1/2'' '' wide and 3-1/2'' '' long.

A large picnic area or camping development is most efficient in shape as a square or rectangle several hundred feet in width in preference to a long narrow area less than one hundred feet wide.

Suddenly he was interrupted in his daydreaming by a warm wetness lapping against his chin, and his eyes opened wide and long at the sight of a goat's claret tongue, feasting against the salt taste of him.

It is a slab of white marble long, wide, and thick, on which are 5 groups of markings.

They are wide and spacious and about a mile long ", and this became the basis for the plan of Adelaide.

His demands were certainly grand: the concession of a block of territory 200 miles long by 150 wide between the Danube and the Gulf of Venice ( to be held probably on some terms of nominal dependence on the Empire ) and the title of commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

To be more exact, one acre is 90. 75 percent of a long by wide American football field ( without the end zones ).

The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The Anubis Shrine measures 95 centimeters long, 37 centimeters wide, 54. 3 centimeters high ( approximately 54. 5 inches long, 13. 5 inches wide, 37 inches high ) in the shape of a pylon.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

As built, the tunnel was wide, high and long.

The cruciform church measured long by wide.

Most one-man baidarkas were about sixteen feet long and twenty inches wide, whereas a two man was on average about twenty feet long and twenty-four inches wide.

To spite the city and an unsympathetic neighbor, Froling built a house wide, long and high on the tiny strip of land left to him.

The intersection of Route 14 with Via Princessa in Santa Clarita is an unusual design, with long flyover ramps for the connections.

According to the Florida Department of Transportation, the tallest flyover is long and high at its peak.

On the flyover next to Western Market are a few old pictures with explanations from times long gone.

although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

He came within an ace of being riddled with bullets during his long fight with the Doolin gang which terrorized Oklahoma in the 1890's.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.