Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FURTHER RANGE-Robert Frost- Holt...
...Robert Frost should be persona grata to two opposing parties: Yankees who never touch poetry and poetry-bibbers who shy at Yankees. For Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...
...poem to be written and read by Robert Frost, and an oration by Bronislaw Malinowski, professor of Anthropology at the University of London, will be features of the literary exercises of the Harvard University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this year...
Days of Wrath, with Poet Robert Frost's A Further Range (to be reviewed next week), is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June...
Cotton. Nearly 1,000 miles of cotton-reinforced asphalt road will be laid in the U. S. this summer in a demonstration backed by the Federal Government. Asphalt-with-cotton needs less maintenance than ordinary bituminous road surfacing, the fabric preventing cracking, water seepage, minimizing heaving when frost comes out of the ground. Eight to ten bales of cotton are required for each mile of road. If all bituminous resurfacing were done with cotton, a market for some 400,000 bales would be provided annually. Latest development in cotton is an experiment in converting the entire plant-boll, pod, leaves...