Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plympton Street--H. C. Frost...
...Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus a considerable variety of subjects, and each chapter contains many items of popular interest. For example, we learn something about "frost fighting" in California; the value of expert testimony on the part of the meteorologist in law-suits; the importance of weather forecasts in railroading and in industry; the real facts in connection with Franklin's famous kite experiments, simple rules of protection from lighting. The essential facts in our present understanding...
...example, been omitted, most of the discussion is simple and easily understood, and the book should stimulate an interest in atmospheric phenomena among those who do not care to make a real study of the subject. Some beautiful half-tones, mostly of clouds, but also including a few of frost, fog, and lightning and an especially good one of a corona, certainly add to the interest of the book. The press-work and the binding, it is hardly necessary to add, are above reproach...
...Enright, who is in charge of the University Athletic Grounds, on the baseball situation. "The diamonds are drying up much faster than I thought they would and the team may be able to get out toward the end of next week. The chief obstacle we encounter is the mighty frosts which keep the water from sinking down. The time the team gets out depends entirely on how much frost we have in the next week...
...same bill is "Hogan's Alley", which takes another crack at Irish mickfighting in New York. When we were very small indeed, there was a little boy named Oscar who lived beside a vegetable garden. Every Fall when Jack Frost got in his dirty work on the vegetables, we got in ours on Oscar. Overripe tomatoes made such an excellent missive that Oscar's mother soon complained to the proper authorities, and the game was off. We spent the rest...