Word: frigidities
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...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...
Oars splashed in the frigid Charles again yesterday as the Varsity heavies finished the sixth heat of a ten-heat race that will determine fall championships and mark the end of rowing for the season tomorrow...
...into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost." Flight Lieut. J. F. Drake of Vancouver said that runways could be constructed on two of the marshy islands but that they would be ". . . hazardous operational bases...