Word: fished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fish, 29 Gray...
...United States the only opportunities for thorough study of marine zoology upon the thousands of miles of sea coast of the United States have been those afforded by the private laboratory of Mr. Alexander Agassiz at Newport, and that of the United States Fish Commissioners at Woods' Holl, under Professor Baird; and before the opening of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, the founding of a marine laboratory for advanced research had not been attempted in this country by any educational institution...
Occupants of the south entry of Thayer complain justly of a man who persists in blowing a fish-horn - he calls it a trombone - during study hours...
...Secretary Fish declares himself opposed to co-education "from the very fact that young men and young women are in the same classes...
...seem to you a small matter, but when you think what a field of hope and joy, desperation and sadness lies open to the man who has yet to learn that Burgundy should not be shaken before it is opened, that Rocquefort should be eaten with warmed crackers, that fish should be eaten with cold butter, and truly, I would willingly mortgage the governor's life insurance policy to experience again for the first time the varied soothing and tingling delights of a Pousse-cafe with a layer of old cognac...