Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were not quite sure whether the shock was an explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...field, gliding softly down through the twinkling myriads of snow. The creature's masters left their perches beneath her helium-filled belly. They reported that their charge, the RS-1, sole semirigid* dirigible in the U. S. and largest in the world, had conducted herself most gracefully on her frost-christened maiden flight. Aloft there had been an elevenmile wind, through which she had glided at 40 m. p. h. in steady circles over her abode...
Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
...Sarah Frances Frost ("Julia Marlowe") "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they...
...quickly corrodes parts with which it comes into contact. Evidently the ingenious "G. E." engineers have overcome this, presumably by her metically sealing the equipment, including its motor, compressor and all other moving parts. Once or twice a month the machine will have to be shut down until the frost accumulated on its brine tank can melt...