Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catch the snake that did the biting. To identify it is to know what serum to use. Polyvalent serums are made, good against rattler, moccasin or copperhead bites. For other snakes specific anti-venoms must be used...
...money earned from the sponges pays for the cost of sending out the boats. The profit is divided between sailors and divers. Divers get more because they risk their lives. There are octipi, sharks. But diving for sponges is lucrative. During 1927 the valuation of the sponge catch at Tarpon Springs was $886,216. The figures for 1928, not yet compiled, will show an increase...
...second into its third, Senator Borah's position appeared to grow hourly more on the defensive. The bill was being "pounded," the Senator was being "heckled," the "treaty foes" were "hurling" questions, suggestions, criticisms. The Senator passed from the oratorical into the conversational; galleries and stenographers strained ears to catch low-toned thrusts and parries. Relatively in the background remained Senator Reed of Missouri, big anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat...
Otto Hermann Kahn, banker, caught a fish off West Palm Beach, Fla. A 40-lb. kingfish, his catch was a record. Robert Tyre Jones, golfer, caught a 7-ft. barracuda off Miami, Fla. That was no record...
...with someone, spun around, and began to run toward his own goalline. No one ran after him except photographers who, quicker than Riegels' teammates, saw their chance not to prevent but to immortalize a tragic event (see cut). At last. Lorn started after Riegels but he did not catch the lumbering centre until they reached the four-yard line. He tried to tell Riegels what had happened but though he shouted the words into his ear, Riegels could not hear him in the roar of the crowd. Lorn grabbed his shoulder and pointed back up the field...