Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polio bug is supposed to vamoose at the first frost. But this year polio is breaking the rules. California, particularly, was worried as it totted up late fall cases-as many as 140 new cases in one week...
Outside on the apron, MacWilliams walked up to his silver twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring...
Radcliffe's chapter of the National Students Association last night named Judith Frest '51 and Elizabeth Tucker '52 chairmen for two branches of the group's 1948-49 projects. Miss Frost will, head the student purchase card committee; Miss Tucker will handle publicity for the Annex-headed regional project--a trination tour...
...Miss Frost will represent the purchase card delegation for the first time at Sunday's intercollegiate meeting for all similar committees from other colleges at Phillips Brooks House...
Conference speakers will includes Mrs. Brower Blackall, national drive chairman, and Mr. Horace W. Frost, president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association. They will stress the urgency of success in the campaign and will offer practical suggestions...