Word: brackish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as the potato farmer is never certain of what his crop will be, the oyster-man's reward is always doubtful. Thus last week the oystermen of Bivalve roundly cursed the fact that they have had little rain, that the brackish water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself...