Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city...
Today peace strikes and student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...
...causes of these outbreaks are vareid. Protein decomposition is probably the commonest cause. Meat and meat products of all kinds, fish, shellfish, milk and milk products, such as cream, ice cream, choose and all substances made with milk, such as pastry and pie fillings, may be the cause of the dirturbance. The food need not be spoiled, with disagreeable order and taste, yet may produce intestinal irritation...
...with underpasses for pedestrians and with automobile traffic routed to the outskirts; the surrounding "Greenbelt" of farms to furnish food and guard against industrial intrusion; the community centre, post office, schools, shops, athletic field; the 22-acre artificial lake which, as the president watched, was stocked with Federal fish...
...thin out the Cherokee National Forest's population of 400-odd European boars and give U. S. hunters some unique sport, Tennessee's State Fish & Game Commission announced a hunt to begin Nov. 19, last ten days. Applications, of which 160 had been received by this week, may be sent to the State Fish & Game Commission at Nashville until the day of the hunt. The first 100 applicants to send in a special $5 fee (for cost of attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly...