Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times. Written from the base camp on Rongbuk Glacier, May 18, they gave no intimation that members of the party had any immediate likelihood of attaining the peak. Indeed, tentative starts by two parties which had established advance camps were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole, party was back at the base camp waiting for a break in the weather. The British members were still undaunted, however, and expected better fortune...
Apparently as much wine is consumed in this country as ever. Prohibition laws have simply changed the outward forms by which wines are made. The tonnages of wines carried by leading railroads, for example, have shrunk rapidly toward zero. The Southern Pacific, which in 1917 carried 450,287 tons of wine, and in 1919 about 230,000 tons, in 1923 transported only 49,946 tons. So too the Santa Fe carried 167,535 tons in 1917, 94,181 in 1919 and 21,623 tons...
...Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when gendarmes forcibly dispersed the immovably enraptured diehards...
...days to intensive practice in handling the ball. Time and again the University players drove within striking distance of the Colgate goal only to lose the ball by a careless fumble before a shot was attempted. A number of brilliant stops by the Hamiltonian goaltender also contributed to the zero in the Harvard column...
Captain Amundsen explains that at some thousands of feet, the temperature is less cold than at the surface of the ice. He hopes it will never be colder than 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero...