Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here by the fire we defy frost and storm...
...considers the chief influence on his thinking about literature, and especially poetry, to be his contact with Robert Frost. The two became close friends as teacher and student at Amherst and the friendship persisted when Brower became a graduate student here. Frost was among the contributers to a magazine which Brower started in 1932, called The New Frontier, "a little magazine with a social conscience whose only distinction was that instead of dying it just stopped...
...Like Frost, Brower loves New England, loves particularly to take long walks along its country roads. He is an inveterate walker and at Amherst he often led a hiking group through the surrounding woods, spicing the ramblings with peripatetic philosophy. Early this summer he did some concentrated meandering on Cape Cod, "way down, you know, where Thoreau walked...
...growers argue that all early crop reports are bound to be inaccurate. To judge yesterday's estimate by today's knowledge, say the coffeemen, is both unsound and unfair. Furthermore, when viewed in terms of the expected 1954 harvest v. the actual harvest, the crop loss from frost was an estimated 2,932,700 bags, or 17%; FTC's 8% figure is based on a false comparison with 1953 production...
...about 10% of U.S. annual consumption-result in a narrow, rapidly fluctuating market. The fact is, according to coffeemen, that about 40% of all U.S. coffee is traded on the exchange. The price rise, they insist, was simply due to heavy demand coupled with the fear of a low, frost-bitten supply. Says Gustavo Lobo Jr., president of the New York exchange: "If speculation occurred, it was within permissible limits. If we are going to curb speculation entirely, we will have to do away with free markets of every kind...