Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this Activist Starace, who has a zero sense of humor, passed to a condemnation of "passive words and phrases such as insediarsi" (to install oneself). According to Starace, to say that a Fascist has been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...
...Zero. When President Roosevelt finally got his $4,880,000,000 from Congress last April 8, he set July 1, amid a great splatter of headlines, as the date when all the nation's employables would have been shifted from local dole to Federal work. When that deadline came & went last week the new Works program stood as follows...
...mass whatever. Particles like protons and electrons, having both mass and charge, seemed to Einstein to represent "two-bridge problems"-two points of space connecting the two space-sheets. The gentle professor was relieved to find that his new mathematics dredged up no particles of less than zero mass...
...administrative integrity of China." This pledge is now no more than wind among the willows, so disinclined are other Great Powers to hold Japan to their common pledge. Therefore the result of Chinese diplomatic protests last week in Washington, London, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, The Hague and Brussels was approximately zero...
...Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...