Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to their hydrogen ion concentration. But the differences in conductivity between good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...
...Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant fall forward exhausted by the exertion this...
Home Life. Terrible are the winds and temperatures of Antarctica. On many a winter's day, explorers shiver in weather 70 or 80 degrees below zero, no degrees below freezing. For the foundations of their six houses, they must use ice. Gales will blow great banks of snow against doors and windows...
...these Goodyear with assets of $179,000,000 is the largest. Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...
...Atlanta, Iowa, the high school team made 92 hits (16 of them homers) in a game with Griswold, scored 109 runs. Griswold scored zero...