Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...season this year by participating in the Symphony concerts of this Friday and Saturday. The work in which they are to sing is Liszt's Faust Symphony, which employs a chorus in its third and last movement. Written during the years 1854-57, the symphony is really neither fish nor fowl; for while composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles...
From the spectacular point of view, snakes, fresh water fish, and birds of the Gaspe Peninsula probably dominate the social program as offered this winter by the Entertainment office of the Student Employment Bureau...
...quite two years ago physicians and prospective parents welcomed the news that a small, carp-like fish could tell whether or not a woman was going to have a baby (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will...
Some of the minnows out of this pretty kettle of fish are probably meant for matrimonial comment: the veritas in vine sort of thing. But one can't be impressed by profundity. One of the girls left her husband because he never took her to the movies, but instead made very disagreeable stinks with his chemicals. She goes back to him when she learns that he is through with the smelly part of his work, and is about to go to France to make perfume. Perhaps Mr. Herendeen has his tongue in his cheek about that daughter...