Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taking advantage of the open weather and getting on the water. For many years no crews have been able to be on the river as early as this, and it is a matter of congratulation that this year the weather has not been severe enough to keep the river frozen over for any length of time...
...river has finally frozen over...
Boston Harbor has been frozen over this week for the first time since...
When the men reached Cambridge their extravagant feelings were somewhat subdued by the cold. Nevertheless the unanimous verdict was that, barring the fact that they had been almost frozen on the way to Wellesley, and that the sumptuous spread with which they were served would probably give them all dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with...
...higher than Holmes Field but this fact does not make it impossible nor even very difficult to flood the field. A low embankment either of earth or snow would be sufficient to keep the water from running off, and if the field is flooded when the ground is frozen hard there will be no danger of the water's sinking through the soil before ice can be formed. The city of Cambridge last year, when the plan was first suggested, agreed to furnish the necessary water at a very low rate. This and the other expenses connected with the execution...