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Word: sub-zero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Raditch on Raditch | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nun Exhumed | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Sub-Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Chang. Back to Mukden, his capital city in sub-zero Manchuria, the young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang did not go last week. He has been at Nanking in central China, conferring with another "little general," President Chiang Kaishek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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