Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the Bond Club luncheon, he got news that sent him and Mrs. Hurley fairly flying back to Washington. Their daughter Ruth, 9, had swallowed a Red Cross pin. (Damage: zero...
...lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young and vigorous but chained to a post so tight it can't move. I'm for breaking that chain. . . . The zero hour of hard times will come in the winter...
...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...
...come there. . . ." He settled down in his "house" (six feet by six), prepared to make the best of things. It was cold. In winter he could never get the temperature in his room higher than 50°. Outside it would be anything from 40° to 72° below Zero...
...with the idea of eventual escape, he set out to Verkhoyansk, "the pole of cold." This village was many miles to the south but set in a basin where cold air settles and few winds blow. Zenzinov one day in January, 1913 noted a temperature of 95.4° below Zero. In Verkhoyansk, says he, if "you take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks...