Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...device consists of a vulcanized rubber casing to be laced to the leading edge of the wing and impregnated with an oil which resists the formation of ice. There the scientists were faced with the problem of composing an oil which would not only offer zero-adhesion, but would not be scrubbed away by the action of 100-mile winds and rain. Further to render the scrubbing action impossible, the oils are absorbed into thin sheets of vulcanized rubber which in turn exude the mixture...
...Bucharest last week the editors of Lupta and Taranismul (antiRoyalist newsorgans) were at such a zero hour. Next day there would go into effect a law providing jail sentences for printing "any derogatory reference or report concerning the Royal Family." What should be the editors' last unmuzzled words...
Child marriage was nearing its zero hour. Within a few days the law forbidding females under 14 and males under 18 to marry anywhere in British India would go into effect. Mr. Gandhi knew that as he spoke hundreds of children all over India were being married by parents frantically anxious to get their sons and daughters in under the wire. (Theory: a mature man who marries a babe, aged two, knows that the young spouse is without worldly taint...
...London the stock exchange was steady at zero hour last week, though Indian securities have gradually declined during the past three months (TIME...
...results: Maximum degree of interest for nurses was 33%; for pedagogs, 19%. Lamented Professor Kitson: "Several stated bluntly that their interest was at the zero point. Such workers are in a most unhappy plight and constitute a serious menace to the effectiveness of their professional group...