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Word: frozen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond stopped writing, leaned back in his chair, and gazed up at the queer stained-glass windows that lighted the Hall. He was tired of working at high speed, and the muscles of his right hand had frozen. He would rest a minute before putting the finishing touches on his essay. He took a hasty glance at his watch. Ten minutes of twelve. Why, in an hour and ten minutes he'd be boarding a train at South Station to carry him to the City and to this January's journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...radio the Regina Maria was unmercifully buffeted. Two feet of water flooded the stateroom of the Crown Prince, and the violent wind snapped off one of the destroyer's masts., For 36 hours the Regina Maria bucked and plunged, water even in her engine room, spray frozen on her. Her crew got neither food nor sleep. "Can't I do something to help?" asked the nauseated Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Regina Maria in Trouble | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck was a fountain of flame which blackened the snow for 100 ft., prevented the horrified witnesses from trying to extricate the ten men aboard. When the flames subsided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flaming Arrow | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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