Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temperatures had been low for a fortnight in Southern California when one afternoon last week the Federal Fruit Frost Service sent out a warning that during the night the mercury would dive farther below freezing than it had for 24 years. Frantic men with torches went rushing through the citrus groves lighting great smudge pots, from which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles...
Quoting, however, from Miss Temple's frantic night letter to the Radcliffe News, she "denies everything" and ascribes the whole affair to "a publicity stunt conceived by my press agent, an ex-reporter of the Crimson, who was discharged for misspelling a football player's name in the Athletic Notices." Moreover, the articles mentioned as necessary for the proper Radcliffe spirit, glasses, flat heeled shoes and other paraphernalia, she attacks as "the product of a banal imagination, or rather the product of a banal collective lack of imagination...
Attention of the Yard Police was detracted from frantic searchings from Sarah, the cat, to two dachshunds yesterday...
...operator was puzzled to note that Pilot Blom was using a daytime radio frequency. He asked the plane's position. Pilot Blom replied: "Wait a minute." The operator waited. But he heard no voice through his earphones, no drone of motors in the sky. In a few minutes frantic United launched a search, but not until next morning did a flyer spot the tragedy from...
...Committee is willing to keep within the bounds of its capabilities and manages to fight off the threat of spectacular rather than useful action, it has a chance to win the support of the entire College. Above all it should be realized that a tremendous proportion of the customary frantic "work for peace" seems extremely childish to practical men. College peace activity is confined to symposiums, speeches, and study groups; whether earnest student peace - lovers realize it or not. The Peace Committee's value lies in building an intelligent student attitude on peace--acting largely as a supplement...