Word: frosts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...committee is financed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., a corporation which knows how to mix altruism and business. The committee is composed of such nationally known sanitarians as Dr. Charles-Edward A. Winslow, Chairman, Dr. Charles V. Chapin, Dr. Haven Emerson, Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, Dr. Wade H. Frost, Dr. Allen W. Freeman, Dr. Lewis R. Thompson...
Robert Bridges, ancient poet laureate of England, was invited to succeed Robert Frost, poet of the New England pastureland, as the chief cultural embellishment of Michigan University...
...Robert Frost, a Californian transplanted to Vermont soil, took book-learning fitfully at Dartmouth, then at Harvard, reverted early to the teachings of nature in open fields and wooded hill country. He was and is a farmer, by temperament and occupation, but has found time to teach, first at a local academy, later at normal school and Amherst College (1916-20). His published works are contained in four slim volumes. He has a reputation for thinking much, transcribing little. He returns this Fall to Amherst...
...Orleans 76 3:44 " Denver 71 2:09 " Salt Lake City 77 1:56 " Seattle 74 12:31 " San Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley. Oh a plateau 1,300 feet above sea-level an observatory equipped with elaborate telescopic and photographic apparatus...
...Yerkes Observatory expedition headed by Director Edwin B. Frost and Captain Barnett Harris, of the War Department, will take motion pictures of the eclipse with four cameras placed 15 miles apart. They will be stationed on Santa Catalina Island...