Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warren Gamaliel Harding. "The only case of 'triple zero achievement' in our day and generation, so far as I know. ... A man of weak sexuality is in luck, from the point of view demanded by high achievement. For he is not distracted from his aim by blonde winks and brunette giggles. . . . No Elks' picnic ever reaches Par nassus. The only man who has ever achieved something through the aid of tea parties is Sir Thomas Lipton." Such high-sounding words as Idealism and Service have little to do with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William...
...whole funeral rather than just the casket. The average funeral comes to around $300. No figures on the actual number of caskets sold by National are ever given out, although the company admits that the all-time highs were during the influenza epidemics when stocks reached zero and caskets had to be recalled from non-flu districts. National estimates, however, that it makes one-sixth of the U. S. output...
...preached some damn fine sermons." He planned a gigantic simultaneous uprising of slaves and white trash throughout the West, and his organizing genius almost succeeded in bringing it to a head. But he talked too much; one of his confidants got him arrested just before the zero hour...
...dozen steamers piled on extra steam crossing the Atlantic last week, racing against time to save money. The Olympic, notable winner, saved $130,000 for its clients. At Manhattan and other ports, men fighting noisily in the customs-houses raced to withdraw stored goods before the zero hour when duties would be higher; Manhattan customs receipts for the day were ten times the average...
Light reflected from two samples of the same cloth placed in the machine, passes into the cell, gives an electrical impulse which is indicated by a galvanometre. The indicator hand is then set at zero, the unknown sample is introduced. If the hand again points to zero the match is perfect. If it varies to the right the second sample is too dark, to the left, too light. A variation of three calibrated scale divisions is considered a passable commercial match...