Word: fin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved fin de siècle manner by tobacco and the hypodermic needle...
...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
...open season for trout ended, but not before the President had caught one more fat rainbow trout (4½ lbs.) and, by moonlight one evening, a grayling. Fifty grayling-slim, gamey cousins of the trout with a high dorsal fin, plentiful in Montana but almost extinct in Wisconsin-had been turned into the Brule from the Pierce estate's fish nurseries...
...general, the new plane duplicates the old. It will have slight changes in design: larger fin, larger rudder, larger stabilizer, to insure improved control. Special lights will ease night flying. Like modern automobiles, it will have class as well as comfort: silk mohair upholstery with deep-cushioned chairs...
...Mesozoic times, contemporaneously with the dinosaurs on land, the seas swarmed with these reptiles, sometimes reaching 30 feet in length. They developed a true fish shape, together with front and hind paddles, and some of them had a fish-shaped tail and dorsal fin. Their jaws were long and armed with many sharp-pointed, conical teeth. So numerous were these animals that in the Mesozoic Age they ruled the sea, and even the sharks had difficulty competing with them...