Word: nil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found themselves in the same sponge-divers' gang. The work was punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...
...systemic toxic agents, are of little use in war. Hydrocyanic acid, now used to execute criminals in closed chambers, is so volatile in open air that it tends to disperse harmlessly. The French started using hydrocyanic acid in 1916 and put over 4,000 tons. Casualties were practically nil...
...feeble that electrons may combine in large swarms and travel along together like mountain climbers tied together by a rope. By virtue of this "co-operation," the faint show of opposition that might impede one electron impedes the swarm not at all, and electrical resistance is therefore nil...
...applaud the action of the Harvard student council in investigating them. At the same time we should rejoice that at Technology the possibility of the growth of a group of tutoring schools, whose business is lining up "snap" courses and "easy" professors, is absolutely nil, because the majority of students who come to the Institute do so in order to become engineers in certain definite fields, and not primarily to get a "broad education", which, unfortunately, is in so many cases a synonym for "getting a degree in the easiest possible manner." THE TECH
...coach, U. P. engineers set to work on a lift which will carry the customers 1,500 ft. above the valley's floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...