Word: grouper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Manhattan Jews gazed resentfully at the groupers in the New York aquarium, and at the placard on the grouper tank. The Christian Century good news had not yet come true. The placard still reads "JEWFISH (Grouper...
...jewfish, socalled, is the hulking; giant of the grouper family. It has little eye set far forward and high up in its head ; a gaping, underslung jaw ; an oblong body. It grows, off tropical America and along the California coast, to a length of six feet, in the Pacific south seas to twelve feet. Although sluggish, it is a favorite of sea fishermen, for its mighty-seeming on the hook...
...complaining that an irate landlady and confiscated their respective clothes and razors." So runs the CRIMSON report, and let every undergraduate pray that it encountered no dean's wary eye. Not that any august member of the administrative board would consider attempting a second-story entrance into a seventh-grouper's room for the purpose of confiscating his neck-ties and garters. This would be clearly impracticable, for if the dean didn't accidentally get his room-mate's apparel, the delinquent could. And besides there might be unfortunate publicity if a yard-cop should collar the administrator of justice...
...tired seventh-grouper may soon look for new reenforcement in his semestral battle against the foreclosure of probation. Although ordinary lecturers have difficulty in impressing drowsy auditors, experimenters now claim success in educating persons in their sleep. Live-wire intellectual bootleggers are, it is rumored, watching for practical developments, and with the early perfection of these methods, pocket dictaphones will be smuggled into lectures. Then the semi-annual student will buy records instead of notes; and with a gramophone at his bedside, he may take a full night's rest before his most trying examination...