Word: froze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this was reported to President Macrae, his face froze behind his whiskers. He called to his office the proud three, Merton S. Yewdale, editor-in-chief for ten years, and his two associate editors, Louise T. Nicholl and Samuel Middlebrook, told them that their refusal of the Christmas bonus was evidence of dissatisfaction and disloyalty, told them to accept or resign. With one voice the three resigned...
...small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from the paper in his hands...
...nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes stopped circulation in their feet when they padded their leg irons with rags and strings...
...Roosevelt's artificial jacking up of the price of silver, on which everything turns in China. "I am financially broke, but we are protecting our creditors," said Mr. Raven. "All my resources are going into liquidation of my companies. American silver-buying drained China of her silver, which froze credits, which in turn is paralyzing business." The Chinese Government, having begged and implored President Roosevelt for months to stop kiting the price of silver, desperately imposed the death penalty on Chinese caught smuggling out the vital metal-to sell it abroad at "Roosevelt prices." Last week...
...Angeles last week one Dr. Ralph Wiliard froze a guinea pig solid, then revived it. The guinea pig immediately nibbled a piece of spinach, apparently none the worse for refrigeration. Dr. Wiliard, 32, a swarthy, Russian-born chemist, next proposed to freeze & revive a dog, then a monkey, then an ape, then perhaps a human. His ultimate purpose: "To use freezing to kill bacteria of certain diseases while retaining suspended life in the tissues...