Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under his command was a ship's company of 48 persons, including a number of scientists. One of them was Professor C. J. Fish of the University of Pittsburgh, an authority on marine life another, Dr. William R. Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History...
...company went forth at the in stance of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. The Arcturus, equipped for deep-sea fishing, has a drum and seven miles of cable, with trawls to catch fish at various depths. One of the chief objects of this Odyssey is to catch the self-illuminated deep-sea fish, the little monsters of the great depths. Dr. Beebe has expressed hope of capturing a giant squid, one of the great octopi with tentacles many feet in length. Scars which these sucking tentacles have left have been found on whales' sides...
Then, with rather poor taste?a failing of the Marlboroughs?he read the menu, gloated pseudo-maliciously over the fact that cocktails went with hors d'oeuvres, sherry with the soup, sauterne with the fish, red wine with the entree, champagne with the chicken, port for toasts to the King and President, brandy with the coffee...
...crime and prisons. Since 1885 he has been prominent in public affairs in New York, being a candidate for the Lieutenant Governorship of New York and holding the office of mayor in Auburn, N. Y. from 1903 to 1905. He has also taken an active part in forest, fish, and game conservation holding the office of Forest, Fish, and Game Commissioner...
Further on the report states, in referring to the eclipse of 1715, that "Dr. Halley, intimates some appearance of alarm among the fish" during that eclipse, but the committee declares that "we have not heard any similar remark at this time...