Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discoveries relating to frost action in soils, which may lead to large savings in improved frost-resistant highway construction, have been made at the Graduate School of Engineering by Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering...
...investigations of frost action were made possible by Professor Casagrande's installation last year at the School of Engineering of one of the most complete "cold room" laboratories for soil research in the world: In this laboratory natural ice action in soils can be imitated and controlled at will...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...
...Frost attended Harvard from 1897 to 1899 and since has been a member of the faculties of Amherst, University of Michigan, and Yale. In 1924 and 1936 he received the Pulitzer prize for poetry, and, in 1931, the Loines prize for poetry...
...farmer in Derry, N. B., Robert Frost in 1900 started his career. After five years tilling the soil, he took up teaching at Pinkerton Academy in that town, where he taught English. After a year at the State Normal School teaching Psychology, he went to Amherst College, England, where he was a professor of English, then to the University of Michigan, later to Yale, and now here...