Word: hammerhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Briante, hammerhead of the New York University backfield, blighted Red Grange's record for a season's gain (1,260) when he plunged 30 yards the first time he took the ball against Allegheny (1,271). Soon N. Y. U. sent in the second team, limiting their shut-out over Allegheny to 81 points...
...Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than...
...week in January. Dr. Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Heilner, went out in launches to meet it, measure its speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...