Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrilled across Russia, Europe's highly domesticated inhabitants shivered, caught colds, froze to death, were snowbound and frostbitten. London, Paris and Berlin reported the coldest December weather in 47, 61 and 80 years respectively. Worst cold was in Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Norway reported 25° below zero Fahrenheit. Poland 27, Russia 45, and Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia...
...Adolf Hitler on just how much colonial "appeasement" would satisfy him and to ask other powers how much of their colonies they would hand over, Mr. Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything now had to be dropped. Mr. Pirow direly predicted: "Unless there is a complete change of outlook within a month or two the international tension will reach the breaking point during spring of next year...
...last fifty years Boston's average winter temperature has dropped only 1 1/2 degrees, which is the equivalent of the weather 30 miles to the south in 1888. The last half-century's coldest winter, in fact, was only five years ago, when the mercury dropped to 21 below zero, At the meteorological station on Blue Hill there is, from New Bedford in 1812, a record which shows that our forefathers did not have any more snow and ice than we do today...
Just after the war, however, Harvard sent its team to the Rose Bowl. This team had practiced in zero weather, made the trip, and played in the heat. But they won, 7-6, from the unbeaten Pacific Conference champions, although regulars on the Crimson team lost 15 pounds on the average...
...course the most obvious alibi is that Dartmouth had to play under weather conditions far different than those at home. To practice in snow storms and zero weather, then make a tiring train trip, and then to play with the thermometer hovering near 70, is not easy. Little wonder that Coach Earl Blaik's line collapsed toward...