Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week some 7,000,000 U. S. farmers came in from their chores, stomped their feet, dropped their mittens and sat down by their kitchen stoves to warm their frost-nipped hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff...
...announcement of the appointment of Robert Frost to the Charles Eliot Norton chair of poetry for the remainder of the year should be of especial interest to all members of the undergraduate body. Mr. Frost more than lives up to the requirements of the Professorship, which stipulate that the incumbent must be "a man of distinction and internationally famous." He is undoubtedly one of the outstanding leaders in the field of American poetry and his verses on New England have won him the Pulitzer prize for poetry in both 1924 and 1930. In less material form though by no means...
...experience Mr. Frost has gained in the faculties of the University of Michigan, Amherst and Yale should make his contribution to Harvard doubly valuable. The recently inaugurated practice of calling upon working technicians to teach the arts cannot be too highly praised. Unless a man has an intimate and working knowledge of his subject he is no better fitted to teach it than a book. When men who write poetry, prose, the short-story or any other form of literature are called upon to teach it, then and not till then, will education assume its true function and meaning. Harvard...
...Robert Frost, America's distinguished poet, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, and showered with honorary degrees from all over the country, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the half year beginning this February...
...this threat some of the moppets began to cry but Grandfather Frost, whipping off his whiskers, roared at the zealous Communist youth. "Shut up, you fool! I am the Party Secretary...