Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
...onetime candidate for the California assembly (his slogan: "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully"), took the floor. Supporting himself on chrome-plated crutches, he began an oil-on-the-waters speech. "Let's not divide ourselves to the point where we're zero," he said. "We're damn near that...
Last week, with another spring on the way, anti-foreign mobs burned the British Consulate-General in Canton, rioted in Shanghai's streets.* More perilous to the cause of Nationalist China were the gathering Communist offensives all the way from sub-zero Manchuria down to the fertile "rice bowl" of the south...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
Several other films, both American and foreign, would, in any ordinary year, be on a ten-best list; there were also some unusually good tries, and some well-made minor pictures. The French Zero De Conduite, a weird, anarchic comedy about schoolboys, was made 14 years ago by the late, inspired Jean Vigo. First shown in the U.S. last summer, it was a box-office flop. But it was one of the most original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming...