Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meters they stamped their feet and showed other signs of the extreme cold they were experiencing-at this altitude also telephone conversation became impossible, sound being scarcely transmissible in the rarefied air. The "flight" continued to 8,500 meters and a temperature of 30 degrees below zero centigrade. After a gradual return to normal ground conditions, the aviators stepped out smiling. Other men may not stand the test so well, and this highly scientific work may serve a most useful purpose in the selection of flying personnel...
...last January concerning likely events of the year, a common one related to the final financial collapse of Germany. Thus far, although the end has not yet been reached, their prophecies seem more and more likely of fulfilment. Not only is the rate for mark exchange swiftly approaching the zero point, but the conditions responsible for this sensational decline grow worse instead of better. At first the Reichsbank inflated its currency by the millions each week; next, the weekly increases of Reichsbank notes crept up into billions; now, the inflation is proceeding by the trillion each week. The last Reichsbank...
...Volstead Act should be enforced:" Turn the Volstead Act over to the Army and Navy for enforcement. They haven't anything to do in peace time anyhow but go through a few drills and idle away their time cruising or maintaining social relations at some isolated post!" A Zero Mile Stone was erected south of the White House. It marks the beginnings of the Lee and Lincoln Highways as the golden stone in the Forum marked the beginning of the great system of Roman roads. The Chautauqua Circuit put on the road this summer the largest number...
...look forward to a better season. Following the psychology of roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...
...expedition to Peru, a country in the path of totality. Although observations were made in three places, the results were not entirely satisfactory, largely because the plates did not agree very accurately. It is perfectly obvious that many photographs may be taken, some showing a displacement of from zero seconds of are to three seconds, the average being the predicted displacement of 1.75 seconds of are;--but this proves nothing other than poor photography...