Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting to the polling booth-if necessary, to cripple him. Four students were carried to the hospital...
...same time that the students of Glasgow University were pelting one another with aged eggs and older fish in an attempt to choose a Regent, the police were called into the classrooms of the Sorbonne to quell a riot started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean...
...from the Springfield 1929 team by 20 to 47. They have been picked to run as follows: Harvard 1929--Leslie Flaksman, J. P. Wildes, A. S. Wood worth, W. P. Wadsworth, J. P. Emmons, W. R. Maclauren, J. W. Downing, W. R. Driver. Dartmouth 1929--Robinson Rolfe Huston, Fish, Niverson, Hazzerd, Field, White, Worth, Monahan...
...Caillaux and part of the delegation were entertained by Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs, at luncheon. The other guests included: Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Herman Har-jes, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Russell C. Leffingwell, James H. Perkins, Seward Prosser, Benjamin Strong, Paul M. Warburg, Walter Lippmann, Julian Mason, Frank A. Munsey, Rollo Ogden, Frank L. Polk...
...blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...