Word: eels
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...feel. The tense delicacy of the maneuvers made a French sea dog the waterside hero of the week. When Captain Franck Garrigue the beaming master of the Ile de France, brought his 44,356-ton liner abreast of the French Line pier, he did not hesitate. Quick as an eel, he wheeled the Ile around and slid her into the slip in just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished, and the 1936 song of Jerome Kern's was laid to rest.* "When you are a sailor," explained Captain Garrigue to admiring...
...give yourself to a Nude Eel. It's enchanting...
...heard from our little blue birds in austere old London towns that the new rage is, of all things, a Nude Eel. Follow closely...
...much-desired specimen eluded the Galathea. In 1930, while on the research ship Dana, Dr. Bruun caught a larval eel six feet long, which is now at a Copenhagen museum. The larvae of ordinary eels are fragile, transparent things three to four inches long, but when they grow up they reach four feet. Dr. Bruun's larva by analogy should grow up into a monster more than 100 feet long...
...years Dr. Bruun, like Captain Ahab pursuing Moby Dick, has been on the trail of such a monster eel. He thinks that the Galathea did not search in the right places. The deeps are too poor in food to support large creatures. On some future expedition he hopes to comb the more promising waters of the continental slopes, and perhaps latch on to a grown-up eel as big as the legendary sea serpent...