Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Frost, Vermont poet Litt.D...
...Frost in Japan. Mulberry leaves to the value of 7,000,000 yen were destroyed. This was a big blow to the silk worms, whose staple food comes exclusively from mulberry leaves. Japan's Privy Council formally approved the Lausanne Treaty...
...momentous, if a trifle prolix. Not only that the foreign writers were present; but that I have never seen so representative a group of Americans assembled. From England, were May Sinclair, Rebecca West, Mrs. Dawson-Scott. From America, were Carl Van Doren, President of the American Centre; Robert Frost, poet and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize; Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson; critics such as Henry Seidel Canby and Clayton...
...This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers. How will he find the atmosphere at the University of Michigan? It is more than probable that we shall never know; for Robert...
...polar region in the U. S. In the basin of the Yukon it is warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...