Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front Line where the panic and stampede of some ghastly experience was re-enacted among the livid faces of the dead...
...fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
...pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on My Roller Skates, Pansy Bells, The Butterfly, The Wolf (inspired by Little Red Ridinghood&), Golden Fish in Silver Waters, the result of a visit to the Aquarium...
...Bermuda's government aquarium a pair of Galapagos penguins, presented by Vincent Astor three years ago and lately fed wheat-germ oil, produced two eggs, which both hatched last week-first captive penguin hatch recorded...
...Manhattan Ichthyologist Christopher W. Coates of the Aquarium received from the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady a potentiometer for measuring the voltage of electric eels. Mr. Coates inserted the electrodes in the water, agitated the eel, read the voltage. Eels developed from 170 to 300 volts...