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Word: zero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, the Yale baseball nine scored 27 runs against Catholic University which scored zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Worst in Decades | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...above zero Fahrenheit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Worst in Decades | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eight Miles Up | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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