Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the preliminary and final editions of the current catalogue, the Anthropology Department changed its announcements from something approaching zero to something approaching a model for such laconic departments as Economics, Government, and Social Relations. Its descriptions do not challenge the ideal set up by the General Education courses, but space limitations bar universal application of such liberal accounts. Nevertheless, the few lines it devotes to each of its offerings, at a time when the advisory system frequently consists of a semi-annual signature, provide non-concentrators with some concept of what the course is about. This leads to wiser...
...commander of the Air Force's All-Weather Flying Center at Wilmington, Ohio, said last week that for 14 months his outfit has flown a daily, round-trip schedule from Ohio to Maryland. Radar and G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) got the planes through safely and landed them in zero-zero soup. It was always "instrument weather" for the pilots, who kept their cockpits hooded on every flight...
...bullheaded, shrewd, obstreperous witness. On his part, Planemaker Hughes put on a fancy performance in self-advancement, the sum of which was that, in effect, he had thought up many of the good planes the U.S. used in World War II-and the Japs had copied one for their Zero. Everybody welcomed the arrival of Saturday night. Some other Republican Congressmen still in Washington were beginning to get restive over the rowdy proceedings. Michigan's Senior Senator Arthur Vandenberg dropped in among the spectators on Saturday and did not appear to be entranced...
...reduced Stalingrad's population from 500,000 to 22,000, its housing to 5% of prewar, its plant capacity to zero. Today, according to the state's priority system, the city has 70% of its prewar plant capacity, 60% of its prewar population and 20% of its prewar housing. Up to a point, the Kremlin is right to concentrate on long-range reconstruction of industry rather than on immediate comforts, such as housing and consumer goods; but under the brutal 70-60-20 Stalingrad ratio, which puts men at least ten years behind machines, human beings...
...have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied: "Ce n'est que de la crême fouettée" ("It's nothing but whipped cream," i.e., baloney). Had he not belonged to Déat's group? Snapped Bourin: "Zero for the question. I was always against Déat. But I love uniforms. I had only been a lieutenant and Déat offered to make me a major. He also appointed me inspector general of the group. I cannot resist the word general...