Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking the condensed moisture from the walls of their cabin. As to their flight itself, they had ascended much faster than they desired. But "our ascent was of fairy-like beauty. . . . The rare glances from the cabin...
...took the Wegener party 40 days to sledge over the 250 mi. between the two camps. Temperature was 65° below Zero F. When they reached central station Dr. Loewe's feet were frozen. All his toes had to be cut off. Weather was so terrible that it was unwise for anyone to risk return to the coast. But only enough food remained to support three men until the end of May. Professor Wegener insisted that he and Rasmus leave. They rested a day and a half, then started back to the coast. But before they started they joined...
TIME boasts of its accuracy, but not entitled to boast is the Census Department on its figures for cities and towns of over too population. I selected 36 cities and towns from each State at random and noted how many times the figure zero appeared in the second column from the right. I found that in 30.2% of the cases the figure was zero. Examples: 101, 1003, 504, 10,007. Obviously Cornerville was trying to get ahead of Centerville: Waterville was trying to get into the 200 "class." The figure five also appears an abnormally large number of times...
...cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid at -456º F. That temperature is less than 4º F. above Absolute Zero, unrealizable goal of cryogenists. At such low temperatures molecules almost stand still, display fantastic electromagnetic properties...
...world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual...