Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
...help fishermen in the Barents Sea invented electric fish nets. The scheme is to lower a network of wires into the water from the fishing boats, pass a current through the water from wire to wire, creating an electric wall which the fish will not pass. The catch is brought in by opening a rift in the electric wall through which the fish swin into an ordinary...
...House ditched (207-to-204) a bill by Kentucky's Vinson for the Treasury to raise money catch-as-catch-can to pay off the Soldiers' Bonus, passed (318-to-90) and sent to the Senate a bill by Texas' Patman to pay off the Bonus in greenbacks...
...order to catch up with his correspondence and finish some manuscripts Mahatma Gandhi vowed himself to four weeks of silence...
...upbraids and bedevils him until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate daily diet she has had with Mellors and Sylvius is much too cool a character to catch fire. But they grow fond of each other, in a sensible and subdued way, finally get married, look forward to a muted future of reasonable content...