Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, since leaving the battlefields of France, ten regiments of Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea. Now we were moving by forced marches at night to be on time for Zero Hour, to have the honor of storming an entrenched position, to relieve the Jews of the onus of crusading on their own account...
Para-Hydrogen. Dr. K. F. Bonhoeffer, 30, timid, blond lecturer in chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Berlin,† demonstrated that there are two kinds of hydrogen molecules. Around a glass tube filled with charcoal he poured liquid hydrogen which cooled the charcoal to almost absolute zero. Then through the frozen charcoal he pumped ordinary hydrogen which, as it poured out of the tube, passed over a wire heated to incandescence. A small mirror reflected a beam of light on a screen. As the treated hydrogen struck the glowing wire it interfered with the light and caused the mirror beam...
...voice, choice of language and characteristic social relations all go to make your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...
Along the west coast competition is zero for Pan-American, stupendous for anyone else. Manhattan's Joseph Peter Grace and William Russell Grace, brothers, are the commercial tsars. They control ships (Grace Line), trading companies (chiefly for heavy machinery), banks. Peruvians respect and follow their courteously covered commands. Other west coast nationals do likewise, from Ecuador to Chile...
Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...