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Word: frosted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arch.Sci. 3 and Engin. Sci. 7b, architectural drafting and structural mechanics respectively, lead up to Arch.Sci. 10, taken by Seniors, which actually involves building design and may be taken as the equivalent of Architecture 2a in the Graduate School. Frost, in charge of 10, is excellent and extremely well-liked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCH SCI SEEKS CREATIVE EFFORT | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...native materials like redwood, dictated by economy, has become a distinguishing feature. A climate whose temperature seldom falls below freezing simplifies heating problems, allows greater freedom in window and wall structure, permits shallow foundations which need penetrate the ground only a foot or so to get below the frost line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New California Architecture | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...some, realism so simple may well seem as devastating as frost in a hothouse for orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Geography is Fate? | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Farmers watched for the first leaves of the mesquite trees, then began their spring planting, sure now that there would be no more frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Spring Is Coming | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Mobile warfare is always a contest for communications, but never is it more so than during the dead of winter. Last week winter in Russia had reached its height: it was the brittle time that the Russians call "the Christening Frost." Along with the cold, Russian success in cutting German communications also reached a height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Lateral Passes | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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