Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of the Harvard Corporation, Robert Frost, thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first holder of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Followship in Poetry, has been appointed an Associate of Adams House, it was announced yesterday...
...Frost, although this is his first year on the Faculty at Harvard has previously served at Amherst, Michigan, and Yale Universities, and at New Hampshire State Normal, and his former connections with Harvard have been as a student, 1897 to 1899; as Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1916; and as the recipient of the honorary degree of Litt...
...crops looked good in autumn 1939 -all except the political. On the sprouting, tenderly nursed Presidential boomlets set out for 1940 flowering, an unseasonable frost had settled. But hopeful U. S. politicos still tried last week to squirm up into the sun of publicity...
...from Newark Airport to Washington-some 200 miles away from NBC-RCA's Empire State Building transmitter, W2XBS, which has a normal "eyeline" range of 50 miles. Over Washington the ship started to climb. At 21,600 feet, with the passengers sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson...
...poets who became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...