Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard Bowdoin Rogers, A. G., r.f. 2b., Porter Norris, 1b. c., Blake Gordon, c.f. 1b., Hill Todd, l.f. s.s., Johnson Jenkins, s.s. c.f., Daggett Hammond, 2b. r.f., Fish Hill, 3b. l.f., Williams Samborski, c. 3b., Nichols Brown, p. p., Robinson...
...National Government is already concerned in many phases of it, but in an incoherent manner. In the administration of national parks, national forests, wildlife reserves and unreserved domain, the Government in the construction of highways, in the study of the propagation and protection of game and animals, birds and fish, has a very decided bearing upon the recreational facilities open to our people...
Herbert C. Hoover: "In Chicago, addressing the Izaak Walton League, I said there are too few fishermen in public life. 'A fisherman,' said I, must be of contemplative mind. . . No one can catch fish in excitement, in anger or in malice. He [the fisherman] is by nature possessed of faith, hope and even optimism...
...fishers of the Senate fished all week in the deep seas and caught, in one word, nothing. The most promising nibble was testimony of a minor official in the Department of Justice to the effect that the Department had failed to recover between $5,000,000 and $20,000,000 from a subsidiary Du Pont (powder) company. This big fish got off the line before it was hooked. The fishing proceeded...
...though brief, the expedition realized all its objectives. For the Zoölogical Park and Museum of Natural History it collected 150 reptiles, 200 fish, 3,000 insects, hundreds of jars, vials and slides of specimens, and a most complete record of the expedition by watercolor, oil, pen and ink, photograph, film and notes. Many of the living species brought home have never been in captivity before, and many were entirely new to science...