Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness stand, stepped the Laube lawyer. Was it true that Dr. Levin had asked Patrick, among other things, to tell the similarity between a snake, a cow and a sparrow? It was. What had Patrick answered? "None of them talk." What had the doctor given him for that answer? "Zero." And what would be the doctor's answer...
...took a look at the little square cabins and decided they were not good enough for her pet project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only $15 wood-burning stoves for heat, were obviously unsuited to the region's sub-zero winters. Whatever the reason, ten architects and draftsmen were brought from New York and under their direction workmen began to rip up the completed houses, dig cellars, add new wings, sunrooms, dining alcoves, fireplaces, porches. Thereafter two sectors of men labored in Reedsville. Sector I set up the ready...
More Japanese were killed by Chinese weather than by Chinese bullets during the cocky little Empire's sub-zero conquest of Manchukuo (TIME, Jan. 4, 1932). Last week in Finland arrived the Japanese General Staff's noncommittal Captain Nishimura. "I shall stay here two years to study conditions," said he, shivering...
...land there was more trouble. East of the Mississippi, from Alabama to Canada, airports announced "Zero-zero" weather, and air transport stood stock-still. For three days not a plane reached or left the world's busiest port at Newark. In Chicago a lost, invisible plane thrummed round & round the 30-story Furniture Mart for hours. In Alabama Lieut. James L. Majors, U. S. A., tried to land in a fog-wrapped field, crashed, died...
Nazi leaders of the "German Front" or Vote-for-Germany Party in the Saar incited Saar citizens last week to defy the League's order that all banners must be taken down before the plebiscite. After shouting for weeks "The swastika shall be kept flying!", these leaders, as zero hour approached, hauled down their own Nazi banners from German Front headquarters, did not even wait to be threatened by British, Italian, Dutch and Swedish troops of the League's Plebiscite Army (TIME, Dec. 31). As Commander-in-Chief of this Army, brisk Major General John E. S. Brind...