Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers assigned to the 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...
...different times in different places they are different. Massed at a football up-and-down-the-field, they are one voice--either of solemn despair or of deafening triumph. Applauding Arthur Fiedler or Gypsy Rose Lee, they are like seals chapping their fins madly and nasally honking for more-fish...
Ordinary mortals oppressed by the increasing number of big-game fishermen whose conversation about the niceties of taking sailfish, marlin, broadbill and tuna is lofty and arcane, should welcome a new book about catching huge fish by an author who neither prates of his own prowess nor rates all other quarry as paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong...
Colonel Wise got started shark-fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
...with sails shaking; there are no sails like those of the "Bounty," made of shirt-like consistency. This is a real picture of real ships on real seas. Storms are not filmed in a bath tub with models, and everything is so realistic that you can almost smell the fish and feel the moist salt spray...