Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...
...sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced out. Ten minutes later...
...Manet "Still Life of Fish," lent by Messrs. Durand-Ruel, there is an intensity of visual effect that startles. Here is no philosophizing or sentimentality. The artist sees with eyes more widely open than most of us. In contrast to this the Gauguin Still Life--the Table with Fruit and Flowers, lent by Mr. John T. Spaulding. Here the artist is in a tender mood which is something of a surprise...
Under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, Professor Nikolsi A. Borodin, formerly Dean of the Department of Fish Culture and Fisheries, Petrograd Agricultural College, begins a series of lectures on "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" today at 4 o'clock, in Room 402 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street...
...Gold Fish. Duty of 33% asked to compensate for cheaper living conditions in Japan...