Word: gills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STRAUS South Entry W. P. Arnold South Center Montrose W. Gill North Entry N. Fraxier North Center R. Mc. Ayer...
...occupies much the same place that cockfighting once did in the U. S. In each of Bangkok's ten halls there are several tables about which are grouped seats for spectators. When the audience is ready, two bowls, containing the contestants, are placed on the table. If the gill covers of the fish bristle to form a ruff around its head when it spies the other, a fight seems assured. A fight is guaranteed if they charge at one another and bump their noses on the intervening glass...
...Dalton Jr. '31. C. D. Dillon '31. J. F. Dwinell Jr. '31. C. S. Eaton '32, R. M. Faxon '32, M. J. Finlayson '32, G. W. Gibson '31, J. H. Gildea '31. M. W. Gill '31. F. J. Gilligan '32, F. M. Goodwin Jr. '31. D. McL. Greeley '31, R. L. Hoguet Jr. '31, V. A. Holmes '32, A. W. Huguley...
...hours later the same agents closed in upon William David Goldberg as he was slipping through a back door to the same building with a bundle. "Goldie," as his clients call him, dashed his package to the pavement, smashing its bottles. The agents scooped up a gill of gin as evidence, lugged the legger to the lockup...
...served with the famed Dover Patrol of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is married to an American, Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...