Word: fished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer...
...pericardium (membrane enveloping the heart) was bruised and a large pool of blood was trapped in the heart, impeding its motion. Dr. Nicoll slit through the pericardium, and the blood oozed out. At once William Manning's heart leaped in Dr. Nicoll's hand "like a fish out of water...
When they first encounter the works of Naturalist William Beebe, readers usually have some trouble getting accustomed to the strange cast of characters-the moray eels, zebra gobies, angelfish, filensh. amphipods, triglid fish, bubble shells, blennies, opaleyes, nudibranchs and other odd forms of life he writes about. In the Galapagos Islands, in Bermuda or on the Gulf of California; everything reminds Naturalist Beebe of the teeming variety of life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from...
Zaca Venture tells, with many digressions, of a round-trip cruise of the 118-foot Zaca from San Diego down the coast of Lower California and up the Gulf of California to Guaymas with pauses for dredging, diving, fishing. Although it begins with an account of Beebe's sensational discovery that there are snipefish on both the east and west coasts of the U. S.-a discovery whose exact scientific importance escapes the lay reader-it quickly gives way to discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants...
...which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded. To let it pass would tie down the Government so tight that not even its moral weight could quickly be thrown into the lists to preserve world peace...