Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocked the campus to its foundations. The students are up in arms. The daily Cardinal . . . headlines intimate that I wrote the article and that I was a Judas, a traitor, a high-blown intellectual who betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher of the teams, which it wasn...
...mercury stood at two below zero one morning last week at Pine Camp, the U.S. Army's 107,000-acre training area in northern New York. Three feet of snow blanketed the terrain, dotted with scrub pines. At H-hour, 11:30 a.m., 15 potbellied Fairchild Packets roared overhead, a scant 800 feet over the snow...
With all this power, the computator really deals with only two figures zero and one. All numbers fed into it are translated into this "binary" scale before operations begin. Calculation is simplified by changing 6 into 110, 7 into 111, and 13 into...
Muffed. In near-zero Newark, the W.A.A. advertised 224 electrically heated muffs. But prospective buyers were chilled by a full description. It said that an airplane was needed to make use of the muffs, which plug into its electrical (24 volts) system...
When Duluth's temperature last week dropped to 25° below zero, it was thus saluted by a warm-blooded oldster, Manhattan Wit Franklin P. Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest cold of an extremely severe winter...