Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation adds up, not to zero, but rather to a negative quantity. For the baiters are on the march, and the shout of "Communistic professors" again echoes over the land. There is little which can do more to harm the teaching profession than such recurrent campaigns. Not only do they destroy the faith which the general public must have in its teachers, but they also provoke the over-zealous watch-dogs of legislative chambers to blows at academic freedom. There is but one word for the whole episode: regrettable...
...further about Italy's demands on France. (An Italianate Spain would probably put France in a bargaining mood.) He was willing to discuss the plight of the Jews with other powers, but to send none to Ethiopia. He amiably reaffirmed the Anglo-Italian friendship pledge of 1938. Net: zero. To underscore the zero Mr. Chamberlain also called on the Pope...
...passing electric welding arcs through gases at high pressure, scientists have produced temperatures of 11,000° F., roughly the surface temperature of the sun. By alternately magnetizing and demagnetizing certain precooled salts, scientists have reached temperatures only a tiny fraction above absolute zero, −459.72° F. But hundreds of scientists assembled for a science congress in Canberra, Australia's capital, last week could do precisely nothing to alter a summer temperature of 108° in the shade...
Stowe, with a temperature of nine below zero, has 18 inches of snow ranging to 45 inches at the summit of the mountain, and fair weather is expected...
...Mayo Landing, Canada, in Yukon Territory, thermometers reached 58° below zero. Minot, N. Dak. and Bemidji, Minn, experienced 32° below. Iowa, Illinois and the Lake States went under snow blankets as frigid air masses rolled south and east to the Atlantic...