Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concluded that a kingfisher must have carried the catfish aloft. Not even a climbing perch (Anabas scandens) could have shinnied up 40 ft. A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers. It can wrap its pectoral fins around grass stems, drag itself long distances. Why it wants to go overland, no one knows...
...advised them to turn to something else than college work. As a result, the number of Freshmen readmitted for the year 1932-33 has been reduce more satisfactory results we should give up readmission of Freshmen except in very special cases, because many of these men are a drag on the College and profit little from college work...
...exceeds external water pressure, enables a diver to walk outdoors or an investigative Beebe to make comfortable, direct observations of fish life. The device can move a short distance by its own power. But ordinarily a mother ship will tow it to the site of diving operations, will there drag it over the bottom, supply air and electricity. Its maximum working depth...
...usually accused of snobbery. When Yale and Harvard first contemplated making that decision they were so accused. Such action, however, is not snobbery; it is merely the result of the university's realization that, beyond a certain number, men seeking employment from the institution they attend are a drag upon their associates and themselves...
Here the controversialists missed a point. The hounds Dean Bratenahl blessed scrambled off not after a fox but after a little scent bag in a drag hunt...