Word: naughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations Association, in an exclusive interview with the United Press tonight admitted defeat of the League's 20-year effort to abolish war by collective action of nations. He forecast that the appeals of Ethiopia, China and Spain to the League Council now in session would come to naught...
...goalie makes a slip, it is a score against him and his team. Target of whizzing pucks, he must be nimble as a squirrel, sharp-eyed as a hawk. And since a perfect performance for him is a shutout, he works for naught on the scoreboard...
...What is the use?" he sobbed. "We have tried to pull our country up to the standard of others so that we could look at other nations with a feeling of equality and rightly demand mutual respect. Now it appears that all these efforts are coming to naught...
...long could he remain in naught but pyjamas, as the damp, cutting winds of Cambridge's marshes blew icy little gusts through the half open window, and set his teeth achattering, and the gooseflesh arising. Oozing out of bed, the Vag pried open both eyelids, put his left foot into his right slipper, and his right foot into his left slipper, and stumbled off to the shower...
...flair for equipage and flowered vests, in 1890 he organized Manhattan's first ice manufacturing company. Before that he had started to pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1899, but the little steam company whose gross revenues the first year were some $200,000 grew into New York Steam Corp., world's biggest central heating concern with assets...