Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Absolute Zero...
...bells of St. Paul's Chapel tolled the zero hour (2 p.m.), a 700-man academic task force debouched from Nicholas Murray Butler Library and cut across the campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton...
...scientists will open the doors. Inside, in a triple case of glass, hard rubber and wood, they will find, safe & sound, they hope, the venerated object: a softly gleaming bar of platinum-iridium. On its polished surface are two fine lines. When the bar's temperature is zero degrees centigrade, the distance between those lines is exactly one meter (39.37 inches...
...strip say to his control tower, "Just give me the woid and I'll make like a boid.") Through the earphones came an efficient voice from the control tower. "2623, you are cleared for take-off." Down the runway went the plane. The voice said: "2623, airborne at zero three [2:03 p.m.]. Your altitude...
...civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...