Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second Herrin trial is on. The witnesses for the prosecution and the defense have assembled, the jury is chosen and the judge has made his opening statement. Again the lines of battle in the class war are sharply drawn; the zero hour is about to strike, and once more the nation will listen to the citizens of Herrin-farmers, strikebreakers, tradesmen, victims of the mob, union miners-as they reconstruct the massacre in which 22 strikebreakers and mine guards lost their lives...
...well aware that print is their arch-enemy. Against the watchful custodians of the mails, social heresy or political immorality has little chance. The rostrum, too, is carefully safeguarded, as New York learned last year when it tried to hear such public speakers as Mrs. Sanger and Mr. Zero. But there is another ulcer at the heart of the body politic which was only recently discovered. That disease is Art: the diagnosticians are the American Legion and the American Defense Society...
...Unemployment" is to be the general subject of Mr. Ledoux's address, and after his talk members of the Club will take part in a general discussion on the same subject. During the fall Mr. Ledoux. Popularly known as "Mr. Zero," conducted several sensational auctions of so-called "shorn lambs," former soldiers who had applied to him for aid on account of lack of employment. These auctions were held both on Boston Common and in Bryant Park, New York; in the latter place the meeting was broken up by the police...
...meet the Tech boys. After their 4 to 2 defeat at the hands of the Freshmen on Monday, the engineers were ready for revenge when they faced off yesterday, sending in practically their entire first line, but when the gong rang 15 minutes later there was nothing but a zero score to show for all M. I. T.'s work...
...Princeton Tiger met up with a landslide on the Arena ice Saturday night, and after forty-five minutes of one-way battling there was nothing left but a zero score to show that the New Jersey seven had been on the rink at all. Seven times a Crimson skater rammed the puck past Captain Maxwell, presiding at the cage for the Orange and Black, and only a remarkable display of dexterity and coolness by the visiting goal-tend kept the total from running well into two figures...