Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barometric pressure prevailing that day before his record would be official. Present plane altitude record of 43,166 ft. was set by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N. in 1930. Wearing electrically-heated goggles. gloves, shoes and clothing. Pilot Unwins encountered a temperature of 68° below zero. He was equipped with oxygen breathing apparatus. At the top of his climb the gasoline ran out. Pilot Unwins volplaned safely to a ploughed field...
...constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives to her apartment, mounts guard. Sitting in a circle of detectives Hostess Carewe awaits the zero hour, listens nervously to appropriate wisecracks from drink-befuddled Tony. Promptly at 12:01, the appointed hour, she screams, drops dead...
...returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo Madness is a less sordid variation of the incident. The Captain (Hans Albers) is in charge of the one-boat Navy of a place called Pontenero (to rhyme with "zero" and "hero"). When he meets the Queen of Pontenero (Sari Maritza) he mistakes her for a demimondaine and they enjoy a romance. When it becomes known that the Captain has gambled away the ship's payroll, he makes a neat dive over the side and gaily dog-paddles toward a steamer...
...Davis Cup tennis team: the North American Zone finals against Australia, five matches to zero; in Philadelphia. Brazil is the U. S.'s next opponent...
...record to date of this year's council is a round zero. It has started with a clean slate, and kept it clean. The collection from Stadium crowds for the unemployed was a result of outside pressure on the part of University Hall conspiring with a Boston Transcript writer; initiative for a perfunctory resolution at the time of subway rioting also came from the Dean's office. Beyond this the existing organization has done nothing. The preceding council compiled a report on the tutorial system which has already produced results. If the present body has instigated any investigations, neither...