The chickadee is never so lively as in clear, cold weather;not that he is absolutely insensible to cold; for on those days, rare in this neighborhood, when the mercury falls to fifteen degrees or more below zero, the chickadee shows by his behavior that he, too, feels it to be an exceptional state of things.

British prestige, confidence in British efficiency and power among neutrals has gravitated dangerously in the direction of zero, while admiration for Germany has correspondingly risen.

The temperature was thirty-five below zero when they left the post and there were sun dogs in the sky.

Typhoid fever germs have been known to take an active and vigorous growth after they have been kept for weeks exposed in ice to a temperature below zero.

Quick!" muttered the mate, as the dial hung fluttering at zero.

As we travelled round under the shadow of these giants the temperature fell many degrees below zero, and the cold from the water penetrated the carriages, necessitating fires and warm furs, in spite of the June sunshine.

From the Barren Lands to the edge of the southern watershed the earth lay under from four to six feet of snow, and from the middle of December until late in February the temperature did not rise above thirty degrees below zero, and remained for the most of the time between fifty and sixty.

To understand that dance, it is necessary to remember that it took place on a February night with the thermometer at zero and with the ground five feet beneath the surface of the snow.

This gallant regiment of colored soldiers served eighteen years in that climate, where, in winter, which lasts five months or more, the temperature falls as low as 55 degrees below zero, and in summer rises to over 100 degrees in the shade and where mosquitos rival the Jersey breed.

I ask you to compare Plutarch's lives of demigods and heroes with our modern biographies of deminoughts and zeroes.

That's a four with nine zeroes after it.

The thermometer stood at 25° below zero, a temperature that was mild compared with what it usually had been of late, but the fierce wind abstracted heat from everything exposed to it so rapidly that neither man nor beast could face it for a moment.

Without this atmospheric covering of ours, it is considered that the temperature of the earth at its surface would be the same as that of the celestial spaces, supposed to be at least 76° below zero, or possibly, says Humboldt, 1400° below!

Jock could not stand, before the zero hour came in the trenches, and talk' wi' his mate.

James S. Tlppett (A); 30Apr57; R191206. TITUS, HAROLD. Below zero. Pt.1.

Harold Titus (A); 7Mar57; R188206. Below zero.

Harold Titus (A); 25Mar57; R189022. Below zero.

Harold Titus (A); 15Apr57, R191120; 23Apr57, R191111. Below zero, pt.5.

The human zero.

(In the New Yorker, Apr. 2, 1927) © 1Apr27; B747602. Niven Busch, Jr. (A); 2Apr54; R128167. Mr. Zero.

SEE GIRDLER, TOM M. Zero storage in your home.

Home freezing and storage of food: zero storage In your home.

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Steeled in the grim usages of war though he was, and more than once having felt the heart-breaking stress of the zero hour, this final moment of waiting, of suspense before the attack that was so profoundly to affect his life and the lives of all these other hardy men, pulled heavily at his nerves.

Somewhat warmed by piped exhaust-gases though the glass-enclosed gallery had been, still the cold had been marked; for without, in the stupendous gulf of emptiness that had been rushing away beneath and all about them, no doubt the thermometer would have sunk below zero.