Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection are Miss Lowell's notebooks, manuscripts, rare examples of her early work, and her vast correspondence with literary figures in America and England, including Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Richard Aldington, Vachel Lindsay, Barrett Wendell, Harriet Monroe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eleanora Duse, John Drinkwater, Conrad Alken, and Ezra Pound...
Temperatures had been low for a fortnight in Southern California when one afternoon last week the Federal Fruit Frost Service sent out a warning that during the night the mercury would dive farther below freezing than it had for 24 years. Frantic men with torches went rushing through the citrus groves lighting great smudge pots, from which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles...
...will have to be extremely mild, the coaches say, but if the crews are launched it will be the earliest since 1927. That year a crew was put on the water on January 13 for a short while, but a heavy frost set in soon afterwards. Nineteen eleven was the last time that crews were able to work on the river from February until spring. Whether or not Tom Bolles has brought some of his warm Washington weather with him it looks as though that feat might be duplicated. It is significant that in that year's race...
...military satrap, General Sung Cheh-yuan. Shackled behind a motor car, the prisoner was dragged through the streets of Peiping while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...
...scene represents the final battle between the Gods and Giants. The giants have gathered to attack Asgard, the home of the Gods. They are shown on the bridge, Biforst, which is built of air and water and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge. The frost giants and mountain giants ever seek to capture the bridge so they may ascend to Asgard and overcome the gods...