Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
Last fortnight Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins University described a bolometer to top them all. Its sensitive surface is columbium nitride cooled by liquid hydrogen to minus 432° F. At this temperature-close to absolute zero-columbium nitride becomes "superconductive"; its electrical resistance almost vanishes. When a heat ray hits it and warms it only one millionth of a degree, it gives a clear electrical signal...
...Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars, with the Soviet star on them, passed them...
...Zero plus 30 minutes, if Admiral Blandy gives the order, two Mariner flying boats, equipped with Geiger counters to measure radioactivity, will roar across the lagoon, 40 feet above the water. If they report and if their report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that...
...Star of the Unborn's 645 pages. It describes how Werfel rose again from the grave, none the worse for a sleep of some 100,000 years, on the "Third Day of the Fourth Earth-Month of the Seven Hundred and Forty-Second Sun Week of the Zero Point Zero Zero Third Evolution in the Eleventh Cosmic Capital Year of Virgo...