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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while for Maryland you merely show a weakfish. Did you know that one of the best fishing grounds in the East lies off Ocean City, MARYLAND? That there are to be had silver marlin, tuna, blues, and, so several veterans insist, blue marlin? . . . And also, if you think that Cape Hatteras has channel bass, why not try down around Chincoteague? Otherwise, your article was pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...charge of $1.38 for every adult passenger, 71? for every child between 3 and 12 years, using the Canal. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain has paid as high as $50,000 one way. Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried Englishmen, who see the bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tall Tolls | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Most pugnacious little game fish is the bluefish. Around Cape Cod anglers are still trying to equal the world's-record 25-pounder taken off Cohasset in 1874-oldest salt-water-mark in record-books. Among this generation of fishermen, no one has come within eight pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...distant relative of the striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler. Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked), and most expensive (because many fruitless attempts make boat hire costly), migrate as far north as Cape Breton, N. S., where a 601-pounder, a North American record,* was caught three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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