Word: dorsal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been found singly from India to Norway, but in 1927 a group of over one hundred turned up on the northeast coast of Scotland, where the Harvard specimen was recovered. False Killers have the great teeth of the real Killer and live on cuttle fish, but their dorsal fins are much smaller...
...They seemed a bluish green color, but shone in the sun like aluminum. The rear part of the creature was serrated with protuberances like dorsal fins. The extreme end thrashed about in the water like a propeller...
...Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing...
German cartoons covering Dr. Bracht's efforts to force Prussian ladies to "decently cover" their backs reached the U. S. last week. "It is hereby decided." decreed Dr. Bracht, "that the dorsal opening in feminine costumes shall not be cut so low as to be excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns...
...fish first appeared in hatchery nets twelve years ago, a chunky, gold-gleaming adult of 12 lb.† Hatchery men noticed a peculiar shining spot in front of her dorsal fin, named her Silverspot. Every year for ten years she was caught in Minnesota Lake waters, taken to the hatchery, stripped of her eggs and released. At one stripping she gave some 300,000 eggs...