Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open their mouths sometimes. They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior of a non-U person in that the latter has appreciated the difference between U and non-U, e.g., 'The guard was certainly very civil...
Last week, as the zero hour for the student demonstration approached, all Spain was alert, eyes expectantly concentrated on the big cities of Madrid and Barcelona. But it was in the Navarre mountain-encircled city of Pamplona (pop. 73,000), famed for its bullfight fiesta, that the trouble started...
...anniversary of those Ides of March on which CJ. Caesar was assassinated. This results from an inaccurate or hasty computation, for March 15, 44 B.C. to March 15, 1 B.C. equals only 43 years; March 15, 1 B.C. to March 15, 1 A.D. equals one year. (There was no zero year.) March 15, 1 A.D. to March 15, 1956 makes a total, then, of only 1,999 years...
...late Robert Benchley '12 helped to produce three of the best Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather...
...question of boxing ever being refused a minor letter as a mere safety precaution. In Harvard's intercollegiate history, with almost no special protective equipment required by the N.C.A.A., the total injuries amounted to: 15 hurt thumbs, 1 cut, 1 deviated septum, I sprained ankle (in practice), and zero broken noses...