Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
...group braved zero weather to parade signs saying, "Put Rocky in the Kitchen and Cook Mr. K's Goose," and "Nobody's for Rocky but the People...
...madness to go so fast. We have to go fast. We have 63 million people and nearly 2,000,000 more people every year to feed, clothe, to supply with power and tools and the essentials of life." He points to his record: 1956 auto production zero, this year 170,000; 1956 oil production 5,000 bbl. a day, this year...
...Kelvin: the absolute temperature scale, which starts at absolute zero, 273° below zero on the centigrade scale...
...political scouts back from neighboring statehouses, Brown hustled into Sun Valley, went to work on the other arriving Democratic Governors: Washington's Albert Rosellini, Nevada's Grant Sawyer, New Mexico's John Burroughs and Colorado's Stephen L. R. McNichols. They should, Brown urged, all "zero in" on a regional favorite for President; it was well understood that he had in mind zeroing in on none other than California's Pat Brown. He invited the others to a breakfast where the formal favorable decision was, he hoped, to be made...