Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three weeks before birth. Occasionally, a child is born with the primitive tail still external (it not having...
...their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom...
...Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman of the Executive Committee. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henderson (TIME, Nov. 3), in charge of the U. S. Air Mail, is to resign after July 1 and become General Operations Manager. The directorate includes such men as Marshall Field III of Chicago, Stuyvesant Fish of Manhattan, William A. Rockefeller (grandson of the late brother of John Davison Rockefeller), P. K. Wrigley (son of the chewing-gum man). The great strength of the project lies in the fact that no stock is to be sold publicly: "the promoters regard the project as partly a business...
...fish for whom the food was bought are long gone. Originally there were seventeen of them. But the smaller ones were eaten by the larger until six pickerel and two sunfish remained in the bath-tub, which was their home...
...course the owners were unable to use their own tub under the circumstances. But they raised no objection. Their friends, forced to lend them baths, gradually tired of the arrangement and agitated for the death of the fish...