Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonefish] is a recondite art" (TIME, May 29) would make one think the taking of the world's greatest gamefish was a privilege reserved for only a few expert anglers. Does TIME know neither how to catch the wily bonefish nor the names of aonefish authorities? Name any given six past masters, one of whom might be willing to tell us how and with what to catch this most elusive speedster. Maybe this is asking too much since TIME did say where and when...
...peers to sell the land to the Government, which would then settle farmers on it. The peers were more than willing. They flooded the Government with offers. The Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer forests are mostly in the Highlands. At least 2,000,000 acres of the lands are so high and rocky that they could never be farmed. They are not, however, wholly unproductive. As private parks they are heavily taxed, and when the hunting season...
...salutes were as varied as the uniforms. The Nazis gave the Nazi salute; the Army men made a military salute; Life Party members made a tentative gesture similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...
Ability of the Japanese Army to push the undeclared war to a declared victory depends to a considerable extent on their ability to catch and kill one man. That man is the smoky-eyed Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, symbol of the belated unification of China. For two years this perambulating symbol who travels fearlessly by plane over the mountains and deserts of his country has evaded capture from in front and assassination and bribery (old-Asiatic tools) from behind. Chiang is the needle in the greatest haystack in history...
...anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...