Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zero...
...glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured by self-worship-choked to death...
With the evening air at zero...
Through continuous winter nights, with the mercury often at 70° below Zero, Captain Oscar Wisting* and his men kept up their scientific journals (soundings, air currents), shot vagrant polar bears that came near and even aboard, published a newspaper, tuned their radio to far-off stations, resolutely fought off solitude...
...attacking at less than 10,000 feet. It was recalled that enemy planes would be carefully disguised as to color, and that dark blue is said to possess the highest possible air-target visibility. Nineteen successes in 16,000 trials were contrasted unfavorably with the chances for a zero in roulette...