Word: fishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drum majorette, Miss Beatrice Fishman, had nothing but compliments for the "wonderful game" played by a "very fine" Harvard team. To her the college was "impressive" and Harvard men "big and hard...
...become hermits. Strangely enough, "such fish may seem in other respects more effective organisms than fish with intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search of mates again, although they no longer hatch eggs in the same seasons as the rest of their friends...
...creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric. Two years ago Christopher Coates, the New York Aquarium's inquisitive tropical fishman, slipped an electric eel into a hard-rubber trough with metallic contacts an inch apart, discovered that it could light a neon lamp. That stunt became the Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with three performances daily. Branching his eel out into the field of ceremonial keypushers, he had it supply...
...Harvard line-ups: VARSITY FRESHMAN Wood, oh oh, Shepard Hunsaker, J. P., ih ih, Hammond Cleveland, la la, Elrod Hartstone, la Scott, 2a 2a, Blanchard Campion, e c, Tolliver Duffey, 2d 2d, Towner Magurn, 1d 1d, Livingston Warwick, cp co, Fishman Witherspoon, p p, Chaisson Howard, g g, Riecken
...which got its February issue on the newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid. Its author was a onetime deputy Commissioner of Correction, Joseph Fulling Fishman, who calls Welfare Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other...