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Word: zeros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distilling vitamins requires a very high vacuum. Scientists do not expect to make a perfect vacuum, any more than they expect to reach the cold of absolute zero, but they try to get as close to perfection as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vacuum Ecstasy | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...down by carbon monoxide, is shown by the point that if he had fallen on the table where he was sitting instead of on the floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

Okey Dickey, Buey, who hasn't missed yet, cuts the Card--ozo Manning times and says Harvard 47-Virginia ZERO; Cornell 14, Dartmouth 13; Yale 20-Princeton 14. Armen...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Hney, | Title: HUEY PRESTON THE BUTTON AND FORCED TO PICK HAAVUDD | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...could find," ciphered out the infinitesimal figure of $.00001907378, per mile, put that in as their bid. Much to their disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved is $.00001907378 earned, awarded the Brownsville link to zero-bidding Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pinched Penny | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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