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Word: zero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...height of the zero hour which separates the taking of "divisionals" from the announcement of the results the harassed senior wonders what has become of the relentless efficiency that has long characterized our college office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "This Awful Vagueness" | 5/23/1925 | See Source »

...stopped. Four line plunges netted them eleven yards and a first down, but 12 yards from the goal. The next play came as close to giving the scrubs a touchdown as it could without doing so. A well-directed forward pass flew right to a blackshirt over the zero line. He reached for it, seemed to catch it, then let it go, and the scrubs lost their opportunity for revenge. Cheek, who was now directing Team A, intercepted a pass on the next play on the eight-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCRUBS SHOW FIGHT IN KEEPING SCORE DOWN | 9/30/1924 | See Source »

...change in yesterday's lineup was the replacement of Hitch, who is temporarily on the doctor's list, by Beals at right end. Team B did not show the same force as Team A but, nevertheless, was able to score when Saniborski who had substituted for Howe crossed the zero line. Coach Fisher tried out several combinations. Puffer and Cheek replaced Rogers and Stafford in the backfield, which made it practically the third team backfield. In the line Harrison and Robinson, recent donners of the red jersey, replaced Taylor and Robb, and the second eleven's center, Gamsche, gave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A AND B TEAMS SCORE ONCE EACH IN FIRST SCRIMMAGE | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

...zero, German Art remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayreuth | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

Through solid rock, shifting sand, sliding mud, two great shields are boring toward each other under the Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Under the Hudson | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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