Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of minor clashes, and prepared to meet and crush the first serious Chinese resistance, expected at Kowpangtze, 50 mi. north of Chinchow. Japanese troops camouflaged as snow men in long white gowns crawled forward eleven miles fighting every inch of the way. The temperature was 30 below zero. Japanese scouting planes reported a force of at least 3.000 Chinese "bandits" waiting to defend Panshanhsien. Total Japanese forces in Manchuria did not exceed 25,000 last week, though, seven Japanese transports landed an unrevealed number of fresh troops at Dairen. Meanwhile in Mukden the Japanese G. H. Q. of General...
...Last week he found it. Co-discoverers were Dr George M. Murphy of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under low pressure Dr. Brickwedde liquefied hydrogen by reducing the temperature. Then he allowed the temperature to rise.' At 437º below zero F. the liquid began to evaporate. Ordinary hydrogen atoms, being lighter, had risen to the top, evaporated first, leaving the heavier isotope in a richer mixture. At Columbia Professor Urey examined the hydrogen with a spectroscope, found lines only faintly visible in ordinary hydrogen, concluded they were caused...
...their Terminal Tower project. Then FORTUNE sought her, brought her to Manhattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks in Russia she had five proposals...
Early in Thanksgiving week the bright New Mexican sky suddenly darkened. The white men's thermometers fell far below Zero. Before nightfall snow had banked five ft. high across the down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement...
Thermometer mercury scrooched down in its tubes, showed 4° below Zero. Across the bleak Manchurian steppes just south of Tsitsihar snowflakes scudded in a driving blizzard that nipped soldiers' noses, soldiers' ears. Well-publicized Chinese General Ma Chan-shan with 23,000 Chinese troops was about to make his heroic last stand against 3,500 prosaic but efficient Japanese soldiers...