Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past week perhaps the most serious industrial crisis in the history of the British Isles grew breathtakingly acute. Though Britons continued their daily round of work, and even recreation, their minds were set uneasily upon a certain midnight hour. Nervous, they wondered if it would become historic as the zero hour of a national industrial war between British capital and British labor...
...line their ship quarters with it-its high insulating index. That this boarding synthesized from sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might have taken along "Balsam Wool" (Wood Conversion Co., Cloquet, Minn.), "Fibrofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.), "Corkboard" (Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co., Pittsburgh), "Insulite" (Insulite Co., Minneapolis), "Garrettite" (C. S. Garrett...
Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
...Spinden and I are leading through Eastern Yucatan will diligently seek dates to piece out the dim record of those vanished builders. We cannot hope to find inscriptions before the first definite date in the history of the New World which is August 6, 613 B.C. This is historical zero, discovered in calculations, but the first dated monument comes a full five centuries later. But we should be almost equally pleased to throw light on the abrupt downfall of this lost people. For human interest, after all, is the fundamental appeal in this riddle, and one cannot stop wondering what...
...rubbed his nose, wondering if it was frozen. To the west, 110 miles away across the snow-covered country, he could clearly see the houses of Indianapolis; he could see Cincinnati 50 miles to the south, and Columbus 65 miles northeast. The temperature about him was 79 degrees below zero. He was Lieutenant John A. Macready, flying an XCO-5 in an attempt to break the world's altitude record, held by M. Callise of France. The seven miles that separated him from Dayton were miles of clear and frigid...