Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Latady, special student and president of the Club, has already left Cambridge and is heading for Beaumont, Texas, where the expedition will set sail on January 15. Latady is taking the frigid trip in the capacity of aerial photographer, while his colleague, Robert H. T. Dodson '47, a former vice-president of the mountaineers, will be the trip's geologist...
...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...
...that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with a frigid Swede...
...Summer is coming to the world's last great uninhabited land mass:the Antarctic continent. Even with the tepid sun hovering for months above the horizon, it will still be a bleak region. Its peaks, soaring to a frigid 15,000 feet, have little need for "keep off" signs. Man cannot support himself in the Antarctic, but with elaborate precautions he can maintain himself there long enough to thaw out some of its deep-frozen secrets...
...Navy's aims are partly scientific but mainly-and frankly-military: 1) to train personnel and test equipment in frigid zones (away from the North Polar region where the Russian bear crouches); 2) to develop techniques for operating bases under arctic conditions...