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Word: nil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the removal of the kiosk or the construction of a Porter Square station to funnel off much of the current MTA traffic could further simplify Harvard Square. The chance of this happening in the near future is nil. Not only is the MTA broke, but Harvard Square merchants would be sure to protest the resulting drop in trade should Porter Square become the North Cambridge outlet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost nil. This has been achieved by what one French colonel called un petit cachet medieval: sentries are posted on 40-ft. towers recently built on each road at one-mile intervals. A dawn patrol from each tower digs up the land mines which the Communists plant during the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Life with Father & Mother | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Haul. Near Campbeltown, Scotland, the fishing boat Nil Desperandum dropped her nets in the Firth of Clyde, snared His Majesty's submarine Alcide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: For the Record | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Acting in the movie as such is practically nil. Few club members knew bow to act which is fine. The way it turned out, characters are natural by necessity, especially so when they didn't know they were being filmed. This happened more than once to curious spectators who came over to watch the company "on location" in an around Boston...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Plans for Second Flicker Shape Up As Ivy Films Ends Successful Year | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...Gallup poll, measuring the effect of Henry Wallace's candidacy on the popular vote this week, found it almost nil. The pollsters reported that, if the election were held now with Henry in the race, Harry Truman would beat Tom Dewey (46% to 41%) and would wallop Bob Taft (51% to 31%). They also reported that Ike Eisenhower, with no help from Henry, would defeat the President, 47% to 40%. (In none of the three trial heats did Wallace get more than 8% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Snowball | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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