Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, the Yale baseball nine scored 27 runs against Catholic University which scored zero...
...shock of Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...
Balkans & Near East. From Constantinople came news of "furious gales" over the Black Sea and record low temperatures in Asia Minor. Balkan temperatures sank to four below zero in Belgrade and; even lower in other parts of Jugoslavia. "Tall" but circumstantially repeated; was a story of how the dead, frozen bodies of 17 Jugoslavian soldiers were discovered "clutching their rifles and in perfect marching order . . . half buried in and supported by the snow...
...above zero Fahrenheit...
...where the mercury solidifies after 39° below Zero; up where the air is so thin that one's body feels as puffy as a cloud?sat Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in the basket of a free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet...