Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
...Mounted Police Headquarters in Aklavik that somebody was interfering with their trap lines. For both white and red men, trapping is the only livelihood in winter. Robbing trap lines is a crime, though understandable, but these traps were not robbed. Somebody was smashing snares and deadfalls, scattering the bait so hungry animals could eat it in safety. Tracks of the trap-smasher were followed to Johnson's cabin. Indians raised the alarm, said...
...barley which Cesario Delgado foraged at Porterville was rat & squirrel bait. It had been poisoned with thallium chloride. Thallium is one of the rare metals. It stands in the periodic system of the elements between mercury and lead. Close neighbors are gold, platinum and bismuth. Nearby is radium. Thallium is deadly poison itself, poisons every compound it goes into. None of them can be discerned by taste, smell or feel...
...frozen loans. Foreign banks protest that they cannot charge less than they must pay their own domestic borrowers. All these interest rates vary. ¶ Banker Wiggin's international committee was most anxious to persuade creditors to convert cash advances to German banks into ten-year 6%, notes. As bait, German banks have agreed to deposit special security with a trustee to protect these notes...
Pilot Hinkler's tactlessness alone would be almost enough to endear him to Editor Grey who loves nothing more than to bait the Air Ministry and infuriate the Industry, with which he occasionally enjoys keen unpopularity. Intensely patriotic (suspected of Francophobia), a firm believer in British aviation, he loathes dunderheadedness