Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight began immediately after the regular weather airplane run from the Boston airport, which reported a temperature of 9 below zero Fahrenheit at a height of 17,000 feet, as high as the plane went...
...daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece...
...Inventor Cierva's new "jump take-off"-a method by which the giro for the first time can actually rise straight into the air. This is done by briefly gearing the rotor blades to the engine and whirling them at top speed while their angle of incidence is zero. When the clutch is disengaged and the blades are suddenly given a sharp angle of incidence, the giro jumps some 15 feet straight off the ground. Then the propeller drags the giro forward...
Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each...
Cracked Harvardman Stuart Chase, Class of 1910: "Most of them ask nothing better than a return to the good old days. . . . One is tempted to ask why we should not settle down to the football of our forefathers, with goal posts on the zero yard line, five yards for a first down, and no forward passes...