Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalists, knowing that their countrymen thirsted to read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
...from increasing, the circulation of the Charleston Record soon dropped to zero, for the simple reason that it ceased to appear. Editor Gething explained that there had been a mechanical breakdown. Last week it became known that South Carolina's Governor Blackwood, in order to express the hospitable sentiments of his State, had made Edward F. Hutton a Lieutenant Colonel on his staff...
...Manchukuo part of China), the Japanese spoke their minds memorably. "We can assure the world we have no intention of advancing a foot beyond the Great Wall," said Japanese General Suzuki who was at that moment sitting well inside the Great Wall in Shanhaikwan at 40° below zero. "We have nothing to be ashamed of. The Chinese must come to us on bended knee...
...Then he hangs it on the wall or ceiling, classifies and labels it with the aid of pamphlets issued by Washington's University and State College. Mostly from the Middle West come some 30,000 visitors a year to brave a temperature of 10° above zero, stare at the fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget...
...sound-proof rooms, and a constant temperature room. The last is cork insulated, provided with a vestibule, and equipped with a thermostated steam radiator, thermostated brine coils, and air circulator, so adjusted that it is possible to secure constancy of internal temperature within one degree for any temperature between zero and forty degrees Centigrade...