Word: aquarium
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...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...
From smoky, factory-ridden Steubenville, Ohio, 28 brightly scrubbed boys arrived in Manhattan last week, saw Rockefeller Center, the Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...
Regardless of man-eating sharks which infest their waters, robust Australians cockily make sea-swimming their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
...Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby shark was in turn gulped down by an oversize tiger shark. By final coincidence the tiger shark happened to be caught and so roughly handled on its way to the aquarium that its stomach turned before it had quite digested the baby shark, thus spewing up Smith's tattooed arm in prime condition...