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Word: fishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuna fish canning business in Sames and the development of super strength glues are also on the list of enterprises that American Research and Development is connected with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doriot Helps Channel Cash Into Science | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

Ohio's handsome, white-haired John Bricker, who is beloved by the real-estate lobby, did not join the Senate's private slumming expedition (see above). He had other fish to fry. As the Senate moved into its fifth day of debate on the bipartisan housing bill, Bricker cooked up a whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Fish Fry | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...dimpled face and expressive hands. A literary priest who studied at Oxford and once worked on the Jesuit weekly America, Leonard Feeney is an enthusiastic conversationalist who sometimes begins his sentences with a naive, unliterary "Gee!" The author of several volumes of poetry and essays, he confessed in his Fish on Friday: "I am given to superlatives. I overstate things . . . I say 'most' when I mean 'much.' Without the words 'tremendous,' 'wonderful,' 'amazing,' and 'astounding,' my vocabulary would collapse. I couldn't talk. I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disobedience at St. Benedict's | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...jayvee and freshman heavies will probably face stiffer opposition than their varsity counterparts, as MIT game both crews a stiff battle last week. Both Crimson beats have undergone lineup changes since last Saturday: John Merrick will replace the injured Ham Fish in the jayvees, while two new men, Marty Webb and Doug Fletcher will fill the bow and two slots in the freshman boat...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Face MIT, BU This afternoon | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Harootian's Sea Bird also owed much to the stone it came from-a 4-ft.-high slab of onyx. Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Swooping & Floating | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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