Word: goldfishing
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...photomultiplier tubes are cooled by water flowing between them, and when the apparatus was at Los Alamos, goldfish were thriving in the water. Said Dr. Reines: "There is little interaction between neutrinos and goldfish...
...naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow goldfish...
Wittily, the publishers have decorated the book jacket of this literary curiosity with the novelist's figure in its more recent frame-sitting before his goldfish pond at Chartwell, with his back firmly turned. The frontispiece shows the face of a younger, less imposing man, who had just become a Member of Parliament in the year (1900) in which his first and only novel, a highly romantic work of historical fiction, was first issued in book form...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Senate leaders announced plans today to reform the election laws in advance of the presidential and congressional campaigns this year. Majority Leader Johnson (D-Tex.) said one aim of the legislation is to put political contributions "in a goldfish bowl," for all the voters...
...Astronomer Woolley had also given courage to other conservatives. Said the Spectator's Columnist "Pharos": "I wish the Astronomer Royal had gone a little further and told them to take up model yachting instead. That is a much prettier pastime than dreaming about going to Mars with a goldfish bowl over one's head and a superconcentrated food lozenge under the tongue...