Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant constituency) and made 1,868 converts (adding nearly 1% to Japan's Protestant church rolls, compared to the Mission's one-eighth of 1%). Kagawa is reaching the great non-Christian mass of the Japanese people by picking out certain specific groups-lepers, bank clerks, fishermen, nurses, lawyers, tuberculosis patients-and tackling them one at a time...
...Philadelphians who went to Marty's show this week recognized many a familiar item from the Record: the famous Flower Vendor, a deftly composed photograph of a circus elephant rampant on a field of water buckets, sharply etched pictures of choir boys, burlesque clowns, oyster fishermen, ballplayers, bums, nuns and children. Last week, before the show opened, Photographer Hyman was in Bethlehem, Pa. being pelted with coal and chased by strikers who didn't want to be photographed. But for the opening he put on his best suit, later guest-of-honored at a celebrity-thronged party...
...before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many of these fishing craft were owned by Orientals who were actually clerks, laborers and housewives...
This floating ocean pasturage is forever changing. Where diatoms flourish one season, next season there may be few. Fish, birds, seals, whales follow the diatoms up and down the seas. When biologists have found the causes of the diatoms' mysterious shifts, they may be able to advise fishermen where the best catches can be netted, and how large future catches will be. Newly hatched fry often feed on diatoms before becoming carnivorous. Poor pasturage can mean survival of few fry, poor catches for fishermen...
...Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with...