Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches extensively under water, is surrounded by a semicircular wall. Divers have walked about the large paved...
...Ross Robertson, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, reported to the American Chemical Society that California financiers and scientists are developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...
Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...
Several things went wrong as the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester, Mass. and the Bluenose of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia got ready for the international fishermen's races last week. On the way to Gloucester the fore topmast of Bluenose buckled. The Gertrude L. Thebaud sprang a leak in her stern during a practice spin. She was hauled out and re-calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine...
...Fishermen on the River Dee said salmon were being "shriveled to death...