Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other particularly eminent men who have appeared here as Norton Professors are T. S. Eliot '10, Gilbert Murray, Robert Frost '01, Igor Stravinsky and Sigfried Giedion...
...feels like frost was near-His hair was curly...
...fellow poets noted the fact or felt the loss when Ridgely Torrence died at 76 on Christmas Day, 1950. All the poems he ever published would fit in one small book. But he was admired as a poet, and loved as a friend, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Padraic Colum, William Vaughn Moody. A tall, thin, diffident man with a gaunt face and staring eyes, Ridgely Torrence wrote his rare verse with passion and unceasing care; his poems, polished by humble sincerity as well as art, are understandable by common readers. An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life...
...mating season now, said Henry S. Dybas, assistant curator at Chicago's Natural History Museum. The crickets are enjoying a "middleaged fling." Chlordane sprayed on floors, foundations and walls every seven days until the first frost might bring them under control. But until colder weather, many Chicagoans will continue to share their homes with crickets. And, in lieu of their preferred diet of grass and grain, the crickets will continue to chew on the lace curtains and starched clothing of their helpless hosts...
Foster thinks something was done for him because "everything I touch makes money." When he was 14, he persuaded his father to let him plant four acres of potatoes in March before the frosts are normally over. Then, as Claud Foster says, "I prayed to my partner every night to keep those potatoes from coming up too soon. It was the first year in a long time there wasn't a killing frost after...