Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting tackle they trolled for his little brothers, up to 90 lb. or so, secretly grateful that no real grown-ups hit the bait...
...Adjustment Administration had agreements in its pocket by which 9,000,000 acres of cotton were to be destroyed under the Domestic Allotment Plan. That was accomplished in the face of a tempting boom in cotton prices after patriotic exhortations had been sent out to back up the juicy bait of $100,000,000 in quick cash (TIME, July 24). Last week John Cotton Planter thought of virtue doubly rewarded as commodity prices had a dizzy tumble (see p. 45)-and as rosy talk of salvaging another $100,000,000 came from Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture J. C. Holton...
...broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface. Technique then is to drag your bait before the fish. As in bass fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike or when the fish is pointed toward you (it would fly out of his mouth). Once hooked the game, resourceful broadbill will roll (to shake the hook from his soft mouth...
...must consider student help in the dining halls more seriously than it has to the present. It is certainly a means by which a large proportion of the self-supporting students already in the University could be taken care of; but it should not be used as a bait for incoming freshman who hope to support themselves. As a temporary resort in time of emergency, it does seem an imperative step...
...France; the Heimatblock (Heimwehr), backed by Italy; the National Socialists, backed by Germany. Dollfuss does not want the National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such...