Word: gaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S Managing Editor John Stuart Martin: the North American tuna record ; by bringing to gaff an 821-pounder off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. U. S. sportsmen penetrated these old market fishing grounds three years ago, attracted by reports that the giant, powerful "horse mackerel" grew big and were more plentiful there than anywhere else. Previous Liverpool and North American record was a 788-pounder caught last August by Dr. John R. ("Goat Gland") Brinkley of Del Rio, Texas. Last month Mrs. Earl Potter of Brookville, L. I. won the women's world record there with a 757-pounder...
...last week) : Up Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and into a lavatory in Kinnear Park playground marches Relentless Regan. On the backs of envelopes he pencils two notes: "I can't stand the gaff." "I am crazy." Then Relentless Regan, within earshot of a group of laughing children, pumps a bullet into his brain...
...Harvard won the Compton regatta early in the year, any doubts as to the ability of Coach Tom Bolles to develop a winning sprint crew were dissolved, and all that he has to prove now is that he can change them back into a boat which can withstand the gaff of a four-mile grind and come up the winner as well as they have during their spring races...
...center, Samson-he could take out all seven of the opposing linemen at once. For guards. Peter the Rock and Moses-Moses was so rugged, strong and able to give and take the gaff I'd not only make him a guard but put him on the Football Rules Committee, too. . . For halfbacks: Joshua, of whom the Bible says that he 'passed through,' and Daniel, who was resolute and stuck to the right. I'd put Daniel in charge of the training table, too, he showed he knew his simple fare was better than the pyorrhea...
...vote and a voice; in one of them he has a job. Except for the steadily dwindling minority (2.5% in 1934) of the disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy...