Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...
...Manhattan, officials of the Aquarium announced that their electric eel will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
...dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...
...possibilities have been only partly explored. "Stand by everybody. We are about to present the comic opera entitled "The Kingfish Departs from his Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...
...Reader Capper and Goldfishman Noda consult the New York Aquarium, only institution in the U. S. which regularly procures fish for medical purposes. The Aquarium would be obliged to import bitterlings from Europe or Asia, storing them free of charge until the purchaser was ready to accept delivery. New York's Saw Mill River was stocked with bitterlings ten years ago, but two years later they had disappeared...