Word: dipping
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Fling broad the sail, dip deep...
...selecting the name of a numerous Massachusetts tribe, the satirist's taste is questionable. The Harvard Lampoon, more dedicate and urbane inverted "Holler Codfish Cabot at Harvard" is the unarm life." The slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales...
...French franc, par value until a fortnight ago the most stable currency of the Continental Allies, has recovered from a dramatic dip towards bankruptcy and is now canvalescing at a stable value...
...recent marked rise of sugar stocks has led investors to look into the sugar situation with more than usual interest. During 1922 the price of raw sugar rose fairly steadily; last Spring it shot up rapidly, but fell again, accompanied by considerable political oratory. After a dip early in January, 1924, another marked rise in raw sugar has occurred. European purchases have been large, and the high labor costs seem to indicate good consumption at home...
...been unaccountably neglected since she was let loose by Comstock and Gest in Oh, Lady, Lady of glorious memory. If memory serves, Miss Binney left the comparatively secure precincts of Philadelphia society to become a dancer. After demonstrating her competence as noted above, she took a dip in drama 'with 39 East and has since been distributing her efforts in celluloid form, canned...