Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sightseeing and night-seeing rounds the men told their story of survival. Seven men were flying in a C-47 during an 80-mile-per-hour blow, when both engines conked out. They pancaked on to a frozen plateau 7,700 feet above sea level and 40° below zero...
Griscom also blasted hopes that the Owl would find the Cambridge climate a little too rugged in the winter months. "Owls display typical Harvard indifference when it comes to cold weather," Griscom said, "They are very well insulated, and 20 degrees below zero won't drive them away when there's plenty...
...terse, cautious messages, the Air Force pumped out the bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down on to the rutted icecap, nosed over into a snowbank and marooned its two crewmen with the others...
During the Christmas vacation the most rugged men in the outing club are planning an expedition to the White mountains. There they intend to do some mountain climbing in sub-zero weather...
Although the chamber is 50 cubic feet in volume, the physicists have drained out so much air that the molecules left could easily be put on the head of a pin. Most of the instruments already register a pressure of absolute zero...