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Word: fishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white man was a fool. He had tried to build a bird, had achieved only a dead fish, although in strict fairness, it was admitted that he might have something in the big bow, if he ever learned to make a proper arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew), too full of chocolate ice cream sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...RAINBOW FISH-Ralph Bates-Button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divers | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Marseilles is over run with deserters from Spain, French soldiers, Ford cars, prostitutes and Oxford students on their Spring vacation. My hotel window looks out to a bustling alley strewn with garlic shops, clothes lines and fish mongers. This place was recommened as being picturesque: it is all that, even down to the hotel porters, which by the way, are women. I was a bit embarrassed when at the ring of the bell a young girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

...Guide Bill Hatch, credit for inventing the "drop-back" method of hooking sailfish (giving 20 ft. or so of slack after the fish's first tap, before striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ocean Cicerone | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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