Word: zero
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mornings--so do all the other occupants of the dormitories in the Yard. The first expresses cause, the second result. From considerable experience the civilian students are coming to regard life near the good ship Matthews Hall as extremely rigorous, during the early morning hours especially. Shortly after the zero hour, so it seems to the startled sleepers, the night stillness is shattered by bravely blown reveille. The dreaming student is restored to full consciousness without lingering in any of the intermediate stages. The damage done, he turns over and waits for Morpheus to repair it, but very soon...
...considered that there was supposed to be one secretary to every five hundred soldiers the impossibility of every man measuring up to the standard set by the soldiers is seen. Think of the films that have been showing the "Y" man delivering supplies in the trenches just before the "zero hour" and you will get a faint understanding of what the Y. M. C. A. has really done for the American Army in France. Cornell...
...probable that this program will provide for a concentration of all field work and drill in the summer, with only classes during the rest of the year. It is also more than probable that guns and caissons will find a place in the Harvard Regiment, and that "Left two zero, down five, three thousand" may be understood by the future undergraduate. These plans must be formulated slowly, carefully, with a view to changing conditions, and it would be unwise to attempt to put them into effect before fall...
Lieutenant Morize will supervise the exercise and give the time of the different phases which will be recorded in "zero plus so much." The artillery barrage will be represented by flags carried by members of the Corps...
...sacrifice the authorities have asked them to make. There has been a hearty response by the American people to the call to fight in the trenches, to meet the perils of death in the service of the destroyers on the deep, to drive rivets in the biting blasts of zero weather, to subscribe to Liberty Bonds, to give to the Red Cross and to count nothing of any value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks that Americans may falter is either a traitor at heart or ignorant of the spirit that dominates the American people...