Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
...west coast of England last week crept the French Navy's minesweeper Siam, spying on schools of herring. Its assignment : to learn how to hunt fish with ASDIC (developed for the Allied Submarine Device Investigation Committee, from whose initials it took its name...
Several observers, M. Le Gall among them, have seen schools of fish turn toward the ASDIC-emitting vessel. Why they do it, he does not know, or even whether they do it regularly. He intends to find out. But if fish do-voilà! In future, schools of herring may be seduced by ASDIC right into kippering plants...
Professor Herring acts as Secretary of the Commission and chief of its secretariat. His office will be at Hunter College in the Bronx...
...Committee on Records and editor-in-chief of Public Administration Review. In the spring of 1940, he joined the Carnegie Corporation of New York, an organization with capital assets of over 170 million dollars, as chief or staff for expenditures designed to foster international understanding and cooperation. Because Dr. Herring's new UN duties are closely related to his Carnegie Corporation work, the corporation has released him for an indefinite period