Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A goodly number of representatives of the Governors of coastal states from Texas to Maine will present themselves, next week, to the Secretary of Commerce. "Consider the fish," Mr. Hoover will say.
Consider the herring. Its 60-odd species give it the rank of the world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn...
Consider the cod. Although his family is only second on the platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is...
Consider the salmon. He. ranks fourth?next to mackerel, a high-seas fish?and would by this time have been driven from the Atlantic Coast except for artificial propagation. For the salmon must come to life in a trough excavated by his parent in the gravelly bed of a river...
Oxford and Cambridge are universities each composed of some twenty-odd colleges. It is difficult to describe in brief the relation between the university and the colleges. We shall not be far wrong if we consider the university as a federation of colleges possessing in themselves a large measure of...