Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale of my job." At that point he realized that if they had avoided this assignment (he could have) it would have brought only "a sharp sense of discomfort. As if a necessary molting had miscarried." At 33,000 feet, with the controls frozen (it was 60 below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted six enemy planes a quarter of a mile, ten seconds, below, and these planes swept upward. With an effort which at that altitude left him gently fainting. Saint-Exupéry freed the frozen rudder and lost his enemies...
North Conway reports a temperature of eight degrees above zero and 13 to 28 inches of snow, composed for the most part of light, breakable crust; while Jackson reports the same temperature and 18 to 20 inches of snow, also of light, breakable crust...
...sign in the Union lobby Sunday night before the zero hour commanded "Eat Like Hell," and was signed "John Harvard...
Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...
...fundamental "laws" of physics are being outrageously violated in laboratories by a liquid, helium II. This is ordinary helium reduced to 2.2 degrees above absolute zero (-273.18° C or -459.72° F). And physicists discussing this remarkable substance last week were delighted, for when a field of science is wholly reduced to law, scientists lose interest in it, long for unexplained phenomena to puzzle over...