Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does every Sunday, Premier Ernest Charles Manning had stepped out of his role as boss of oil-booming Alberta, and assumed his other position as head of the Prophetic Bible Institute in downtown Calgary. To some 250 people, who had braved 12°-below-zero weather to hear him, the pale, slender politician preached in a twangy, compelling voice. Calgary's radio station CFCN carried his weekly Back to the Bible Hour to the rest of Alberta...
...Those celebrating the new century as of Jan. 1, 1900 were looked down upon by many well-informed citizens who pointed out that there had been no year Zero A.D.; therefore the 20th Century could not begin until Jan. 1, 1901. (Actually, the pedantic insistence on Jan. 1, 1901 has been overborne by other pedants who say that when the monk Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th Century began the fashion of counting years from the birth of Christ, he missed from one to seven years. So the year 1900 may have been really 1901 or 1907.) In pedantic Boston...