Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophical cud than in telling his story. He will drop everything else for an epigram. Samples: "We kill time; time buries us." "One endures with patience the pain in the other fellow's stomach." From his ghost world, he sums up his life on earth as a zero. He has one" satisfaction: "I had no progeny, I transmitted to no one the legacy of our misery." That, Braz figures, makes him a "small winner...
...A.O.A. scale, normal vision gets a plus rating. Plus 1 roughly represents the Snellen's 20/20, zero the Snellen's 20/40 (ability to read at 20 ft. what normal eyes should read at 40 ft.), Minus 1 the Snellen 20/80, and Minus 2 the old 20/160 (which takes extra thick glasses to correct). Plus 2 in the new scale indicates an eagle-eyed ability to read at 20 ft. what most people cannot read beyond...
...group actually played 84 quartets. The added work was composed about the time Haydn wrote his Quartet, Op. 1, No. 1. Schneider calls it "Opus Zero...
Spring at 26° Below. Though it was technically a spring day in Norman Wells, the temperature was 26° below zero. Winter rules for some eight months a year in the top 2,000,000 sq. mi. of the North American continent, an area which is four-fifths in Canada. But the Canadian North is no longer a land fit only for Indians, Eskimos and a few hardy white men. Lots of women like Mrs. Mackenzie, and lots of children have moved into the North in recent years. The schools in Whitehorse, in the Yukon, now have 364 children...
Occasionally, one subject will preoccupy a part of the country for many weeks at a time. Throughout most of January, waist-deep snow and temperatures ranging to 35° below zero crowded out most other conversation in Salt Lake City. Finally, on Feb.1, Correspondent John Polly's Topic A report read: "Oh, what a beautiful morning. Sun shining, birds singing following heavy rain and sleet last night. Weather-minded Utahans decide life's worthwhile after...