Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugly, blood-sucking monster has been winning. Chief losers have been the splendid lake trout-even though man himself has been their ally. But now news has come at last that the monsters are being beaten: a subtle chemical, cleverly used, has almost cleared Lake Superior of the invading fish-killing sea lamprey...
...having worked its way up the Welland Canal past Niagara Falls, the repulsive eellike creature has been swarming in the lakes. With its round, suckerlike mouth lined with concentric rows of small, sharp teeth, it makes its living by attaching itself to the side of an unlucky fish. Its teeth rasp a hole; its powerful saliva corrodes the fish's flesh and keeps its blood flowing freely. Many fish die of a single lamprey attack...
...frame scaled down to 190-and his lips still sealed. A protege of ex-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer. Moran was nailed in 1951 as the ''guiding genius" in a $500,000-a-year shakedown racket of oil burner contractors. Bigger fish in the city administration were feeding on the take, but Moran, offered a break if he named names, scornfully replied: "I came into this world a man-and I'm going...
Another profitable solution is to turn them into apartment houses, as a former mayor of Newport, James L. Maher, has done with The Crossways, built in 1898 for peppery Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. There is certainly plenty of space. In The Waves, for example, built in 1927 by John Russell Pope, a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once the dining room...
...contributions to the Harvard Fund. It might contain a richly allusive essay on how Thoreau would have viewed the college hierarchy, or some gentle musings on the anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional fund raiser-who retires this week after 37 years as executive director of the Harvard Fund Council...