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Word: iced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that St. Mary's River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors go through it, however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...fear spread that the crews might have to go hungry. Food stores were running low. But there was greater danger that some of them might be killed, for the vessels, with plates only five-eighths of an inch thick, stood in constant danger of being crushed by the squeezing ice. The potential destruction of property aggregated some $200,000,000; insurance lapsed with the first week of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...week's end, the Sainte Marie, largest ice crusher in the world, swaggered over from the Strait of Mackinac, where she does regular winter duty. Like a burly policewoman, she pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...group in the college may enter teams in the informal league. Starting Monday, a notice will be posted in Leavitt and Peirce's window to inform those who are interested in the ice conditions on Soldier's Field rinks. On the days when it is possible to play, anyone desiring to do so may go out to the rinks where the coach in charge will see that he gets an opportunity to play. When good ice can be assured, regular scheduled games will be played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO NEW INTER-CLASS SPORTS ARE ORGANIZED | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

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