Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty's Government concluded, last week, with the Russian Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
...finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot or clubbed any who refused to join and pay "dues...
...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...
...their endeavor to locate the fish's family, records of all the fish caught from the time that America was first settled until the present were consulted, but with little result. A fish that somewhat resembles the one now in the museum was caught off the coast of Cuba several years ago, and another was found off the coast of California...
...There are three possibilities concerning the unknown fish's identity," Dr. Barbour said. "It may be a new species altogether, or it may be a member of the 'Brama Longinpennis' or 'Brama Agassizii' species...