Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average in December was raised to over 75 due to the presence of the Rev. H. E. Fosdick, who conducted chapel during the second week. The attendance on the Sunday he preached jumped to 550, whereas on the previous Sunday it was 279. Partly on account of the zero weather the lowest average, one of 46, was made in February...
...show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed his five suits of underwear, his furlined clothing, his specially designed helmet...
...lead over Harvard at the Arena three weeks ago, it was a common sight for three men to be playing in the Eli defense line. As the game wore on the Yale outfit left the attack more and more to individual sallies, but this same policy resulted in a zero score against the Orange and Black...
Midnight tonight will be the zero bour for the Advocate "Dry" competition. Since the announcement of February 8, the number of entries has practically doubled...
...unquestionably one of the greatest scientists of all time. The Mayas set the beginning of the world in 3373 B. C., counting back from their fixed date seven cycles of 144,000 days each. The perfection of the Mayan calendar required the invention of a symbol for zero, figures for whole numbers and place-value notation, by which the position of a figure determines its value on a modified decimal multiple system with a base of 20. Such a system; was unknown to the Greeks and Romans and was not used in Western Europe until introduced by the Arabs...