Word: frigidities
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...runners were forced to run in the teeth of a frigid gale that swept over Franklin Field and kept the crowd of spectators at a low number. Penn was "the pre-race favorite and came through in great style. Some idea of how close the race really was can be gathered from the fact that the Harvard team, in fourth place, finished in a time that was fully eight seconds better than the time of the winning quartet last year. Penn's time was 20 and one-fifth seconds...
...been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
Until the seals are within 60 miles of the Pribilof Islands the Coast Guard boats will follow them. After that they will be left to disperse among their desolate rookeries, to conduct their queer and frigid propagation, to make ready for their next tour of the Pacific which will start three months after arrival, early in August...
...maintain Fascist prestige. Delicately he hinted that France had a colonial empire in North Africa as large as the U. S. If France would cede a little bit of that to Italy, it would maintain Fascist prestige quite as well as a large navy. The notion was greeted with frigid silence. France replied that if Italy demanded parity in the Mediterranean, by all means let her have parity in the Mediterranean. France would keep her surplus warships in the Atlantic and the Far East...
FAUST. The Jewel and Spinning Songs (Victor, $2)-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sings these with frigid perfection...