Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria was Japan's last week. Harbin, last important city not occupied by Japanese troops, fell before the fierce frost-bitten fighters of General Jiro Ta-mon. Winter was Harbin's best defender. For seven days the fur-hatted Japanese columns struggled north over a frozen desolate country in a temperature of 30° below zero. Finally they closed in on the city from the west and south...
Died. Wilson Alwyn Bentley, 66, famed authority on s,owflakes; of pneumonia; in Jericho, Vt. He had a collection of 5,300 photomicrographs he had made of snow crystals, no two alike. He also photographed frost...
With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small...
...most vivid childhood memory" Scot MacDonald conjured thus: "It is very hard on a frosty morning. We have to get up while it is still dark, and we trudge a mile or two along a frost-bitten dirt road...
...leaning on a basket into which potatoes are being gathered, and I find it difficult to keep the tears out of my eyes on account of my frost-bitten hands. Somebody who is the overseer of us all comes and gives me a slap on my frostbitten...