Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are the reasons: (1) instruction is given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not by a college faculty, which means the College's needs are not all-important; (2) the number of permanent appointments allowed each department is frozen at its "historical" size...
...half-frozen field at the Polo Grounds they put on a stirring show With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles...
That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...
...next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...