Word: codfishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Works garage all night Thursday as mechanics prepared the fire engine for its 1100-mile safari. Numerous phone calls warned the fire officials that the Lampoon was planning to abscond with the engine and, according to one official, threatened "to keep it longer than we kept the Codfish out of the State House...
About the only thing Little Codfish Cabot at Harvard has to recommend it is its delightful title. This little inanity, written by Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., '21 and illustrated by F. Wendworth Saunders '24, could not possibly have enjoyed too much acclaim when it appeared in 1924. It follows the education of a prep-schooled boy at Harvard, his introduction to various customs at Harvard, and his impeccable Bostonian reaction to all situations. The cartoons are poor, and what comment there is can be summarized as inconsequental...
Where the bean and codfish play...
Australian girls are very fine girls, Look away, look away! With codfish bones they comb their curls, Look away...
...broad base of a "food pyramid." They are eaten by slightly bigger zooplahkton, and these small grazers are processed in the stomachs of bigger and bigger carhivora. The food in the original plants diminishes by nine-tenths at each eating. So when a human fisherman catches a fine codfish, each pound of its flesh represents about 100,000 lbs. of plants that grew in the sea. This process is wasteful, thinks Dr. Weiss. Man would do better to harvest the lower, broader stages of the food pyramid...