Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What causes the spry, fun-loving grasshopper, whose meanest trick is spitting "tobacco juice" on fishermen's fingers, to become the voracious, pillaging locust that every farmer hates & fears? Last week at Cornell University Dr. Jacobus Christian Faure announced that the same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They...
...extraordinary is his method of fishing a stream with a gft. leader, with three flies: nymph (to represent larva) at the bottom, a wet fly above it. with a Royal Coachman at the top to serve as a marker for a strike at one of the lower flies. Most fishermen will find that they have tried one or more of Author Bergman's tricks with wet flies but few will find that they have tried them all. Author Bergman believes that old bedraggled flies are generally most appetizing, that trimming flies and thinning out the hackles make them more...
Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from...
...dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been saved, nearly half of the horses...
BROTHERS-L. A. G. Strong-Knobi ($2.50). , Along the rocky shores of the Western Highlands live hardy fishermen who catch lobsters in their naked hands, make Scotch moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous...