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Word: frostbitten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...father carried her back in his arms. Pam did not cry, but she was worried about having lost her blue hair ribbons. She had eaten nothing. At night she had crawled into a hole and covered herself with leaves. Her sneakers had to be cut off her swollen, frostbitten feet. She had lost about eight pounds. But she had survived. The reason she had was that she never got frightened, never exhausted herself, acted as sensibly as a human being could. The New York Daily News dubbed her "Little Miss Courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LITTLE MISS COURAGE | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Sailing in strange boats in the Basin on Sunday, the frostbitten squad of the Harvard Yacht Club finished last, behind Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Brown, in a series of seven races, amassing a total of 101 points to 150 1/2 for Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinghy Racers Finish Last in Sunday Series | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...descended the mountain Saturday, is in Stillman Infirmary, while Jones is still in a Littleton hospital. The latter was lost for some 80 hours in a sub-zero gale and is badly frostbitten but in excellent spirits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS NOT LIKELY FOR STUDENT SKIERS | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

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