Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Bucharest last week the editors of Lupta and Taranismul (antiRoyalist newsorgans) were at such a zero hour. Next day there would go into effect a law providing jail sentences for printing "any derogatory reference or report concerning the Royal Family." What should be the editors' last unmuzzled words...
...London the stock exchange was steady at zero hour last week, though Indian securities have gradually declined during the past three months (TIME...
...results: Maximum degree of interest for nurses was 33%; for pedagogs, 19%. Lamented Professor Kitson: "Several stated bluntly that their interest was at the zero point. Such workers are in a most unhappy plight and constitute a serious menace to the effectiveness of their professional group...
...most important phase of the U. S. egg market is the, use of fresh, or shell eggs, for freezing (breaking them and placing them in 30-lb. containers in which they are frozen and then kept at from zero to 5° Cent.). Annually 6,000,000 cases (30 doz. in a case) are "broken out" for this purpose, used extensively by wholesale bakers. Recently frozen eggs have been used to some extent by manufacturers of macaroni, mayonnaise, ice cream and candy, who previously used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor...
...score of the average citizen is, of course, zero. As if any confirmation of the dismal aesthetic condition of Boston were necessary, after Chicago's opera company came and conquered when Boston had earlier thoroughly snubbed two trembling representatives of its own in that field, Chicago intends to ship east another carload of mid-west Kultur, in the shape of its Civic Shakespeare Company. Boston, too, discovered Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat...