Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eskimos at Kepnuk, Alaska, found Dr. Rosebury, eat little besides fish and seal meat which are soft and rich in fats and proteins. They have no tooth decay. The Eskimos at Eek vary their fish and seal diet with hardtack. Many of them have decayed teeth. Dr. Rosebury became convinced that in hardtack he had found a food analogous to the coarse corn and rice. On his return to Columbia, he and his collaborators, Maxwell Karshan and Genevieve Foley, set to work feeding hardtack to more than a hundred rats, soon produced decayed teeth in many of them...
...breathe on, the poor fish's fills shot the air out into the water, following what Dr. Nett termed the "marine rocket principle...
...Three fish, rumored to have brains so large that they rank second only to those of man and the anthropoids, and which are believed to have a higher I.Q. than any other species of finny denizen, including guppies, have just arrived at the Marine of Geographical Exploration, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Thomas F. Nett, Jr., new head of the department...
...Nett explained when interviewed, that these fish, called Dodatmors, come from the Congo river region, although one was once found in Flushing Bay, thoroughly defunct. He said that man's brain ranged from one-fiftieth to one eightieth of his total weight, depending largely on whether weight, depending largely on whether he is of the thin, Group I variety or the plump dropped Freshmen type. The Dodatmors, on the other hand, have brains a long one-fortieth of their weight...
...more, with the last syllable strongly accented. In appearance they have large, somewhat square heads to make room for their huge brains. They also have high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted that he had added a few buckets of gelatin to their water...