Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Wead, a navy filer and warbird was grounded several years ago and since then he has turned his talents to dramatic exposition of his inside knowledge of the air. His play, "Ceiling Zero" (if Noel gaiety hasn't too completely dulled our memory) was performed with considerable success last season in New York by the estimable Mr. Osgood Perkins, Mary Young's company of Copley Theatre players have brought the work to Boston where it has been running since Christmas...
...Cuban politics a zero hour came last week when opponents of provisional President Carlos Mendieta hired suburban Havana radio station CMQ to criticize the new electoral plan devised by Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds (TIME, Dec. 16) and radio station COCO announced a speech in praise of the plan to be made by the Chief Executive. Day of the speeches the Communications Department ordered CMQ to cancel its anti-Dodds speech...
...March it was ordered into the front lines at Souain Mill. Three attempts to take a strong German position failed under withering machine gun fire, with heavy losses. The high command ordered the regiment's 21st company to attack again, at dawn on March 10. At the zero hour the supporting artillery, which had failed miserably in clearing a way through the barbed wire in No Man's Land, clumsily began to drop shells just in front of the 21st's trenches. The tired men of the 21st made a wavering start, fell back under violent enemy...
...separate rooms for the heavy apparatus, vibration-damping walls, an Eric Gill plaque of Lord Rutherford, boss of Cavendish Laboratory, in the entrance hall. Cost: $75,000. Happy Dr. Kapitza went in as director, started investigating the magnetic resistance of substances at low temperatures. At three degrees above Absolute Zero, he learned, the resistance of bismuth was increased 2,000 times. But much more important finds seemed to lie just ahead...
Last week ambitious Editor Powell's trajectory described a curve he did not plot-a precipitate and sudden return to zero. Back from a vacation in the Caribbean, he found himself fired without notice, his place taken by a onetime Unitarian minister named Ludwig Denny. To the Times staff, Scripps-Howard's Executive Editor John Sorrells explained that Editor Powell had "resigned." To Editor Powell he explained that he was "temperamentally and philosophically unsuited" for the job. Editor Powell agreed...