Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
Jessie Wood chose Lens-Grinder Mellish from among scores of applicants. She subsequently bore eleven children, nine living. Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and Mrs. Frost were Mrs. Mellish's first accoucheurs when her time came at the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
Last year Mrs. Mellish caught her husband with a 15-year-old girl in his lens-grinding shop. Mrs Mellish had him arrested. Last week Professor Frost was trying to get him free. But Lens-Grinder Mellish objected. Liberty and libido were inconsequential to him. In jail or outside he wanted to go on grinding lenses. "I transgressed Society's laws," said he. "I must do penance...
...famous Frost case in London in 1921 gives Author Fort food for speculation. A load of coal took to exploding in the Frost family grates, hopped out, rolled across the floors, went through walls without leaving a trace behind. Flatirons and coal buckets danced. One of the Frost children died of fright. Thoroughly investigated by the police and others, the phenomena were never denied. About the same time there were violent explosions of British coal in France, Belgium, Switzerland. Author Fort calls attention to the fact that it was a period of violent oppression and bitterness in the British coal...
...Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance has been accepted as 92,897,400 mi., triangulated from the Earth-Eros baseline. This may be 50,000 to 100,000 mi. wrong. Use of the Earth-Reinmuth Object baseline, said Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, blind retiring director of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., will reduce the error to within 10,000 mi., or about twice the longitudinal distance from Washington to Rome...