Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process has lengthened from 21 days to two years the period in which blood may be preserved. The technique involves a rapid and practical method of removing a glycerol preservative which freezes blood at 79 degrees below zero centigrade...
North Dakota, along with Minnesota one of the best in the Western Hockey League, was the next sextet to beat the varsity as it won easily, 5 to 1. The game was played in North Dakota's "Winter Sports Palace" in 2 degree below zero weather...
...last "umbilical" cable connecting the rocket to the disconnect pole was slipped free. Seconds later the first traces of white-hot exhaust appeared at the base of TV3 as Dr. J. Paul Walsh, 40, deputy director of Vanguard, reported over an open phone line to Washington: "ZERO . . . FIRE . . . FIRST IGNITION . . ." But then he suddenly exclaimed: "EXPLOSION...
...original launching, scheduled for dawn, was postponed until the supposed zero hour of 4 p.m. yesterday. However, continual troubles occurred and the satellite never got up. Launching times were set and postponed six times during the evening...
...days when the caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird, and you say the discovery of nothin' is a world-shaking event." In dealing with modern computers, Baird must include a quick explanation of the binary system.* He works his way into algebra with the equation...