Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith of Gloucester, Mass., who has been a TIME subscriber from the first issue, took exception to a remark in our July 4 cover story on Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Los Angeles. We said that Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester. Mr. Smith thought the statement irrelevant. He maintained that quality, not quantity, was the true measure, and that there were no fish worth eating in the Pacific anyway. Otherwise, he found the story first-rate...
...Sunday was maybe, to a certain extent, conventional, but at least it brought those who came to worship into a 'real' fellowship. Nowadays, it is the screaming fellowship of the motor-coach trip, the beer-blown friendship of the jug and bottle, the oily fellowship of the fish-&-chip saloon, the sandy-pebbly fellowship of the trippers on the beaches on Sundays, the near-naked-truth fellowship of those who go down to the sea in slips...
Another AEC program is the development of better means of detecting dangerous radiation before it has done any harm. One AEC team is observing Bikini Atoll, where fish, mollusks and even land plants are still concentrating radioactive substances from the A-bombs that exploded there...
Writing in the current Scientific Monthly, Drs. C. H. Hoffmann of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and J P Linuska of the Fish & Wildlife Service deftly spray this "childlike faith in what nature will provide" with mental DDT. Their conclusion is that the real DDT if used with reasonable care, need have no ill effects on desirable wildlife...
Hooked. In Gaines, Pa., Raymond R. Cole boasted to friends about the 28-in. brown trout he had caught with his bare hands, learned too late from Justice of the Peace Roger Stevens that catching fish with the hands is illegal. Fine...