Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coffee, Miss., R. J. Knight exhibited a 7-ft., 198-lb. sturgeon, produced six witnesses who swore that after the fish had broken several trotlines, Fisherman Knight had hooked it, two of his companions had ridden it to shore, a third had shot it dead with a rifle...
...sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June 14), the chief fisherman was bald old Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee...
Last week, all but forgotten, this Potomac mystery became more baffling than ever. A Chesapeake Bay fisherman found Charles F. Keene, quite dead and floating out to sea upside down. What held him so was a brief case whose contents inventoried: a lady's mesh bag, an automobile jack, a mechanic's hammer, two beer can openers, a pen knife, a pocket comb, a silver tea strainer. The brief case was roped to his neck with tight sailor's bowline knots. In Mr. Keene's vest pocket: only a small tin box containing three .32-calibre...
...museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes of the person who may stand...
...John Skeaping considers himself an expert horseman, a fair fisherman, spends one day a week at the race tracks if he can. Twice married, he has a son by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1933. He is chief instructor of the London County Council's school of animal drawing just opened at the London...