Word: herring
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...exhibited the larger and elder until he died, then brought forth his understudy, who by then weighed some 4.000 Ib. and was getting his growth. For two seasons spectators gaped at Goliath II as he was carried around the arena in a motor truck, snorting like thunder, gulping fat herring by the barrel...
...following discussion of dark horses in the presidential race was written for the Crimson, in connection with its forthcoming poll, by E. P. Herring, instructor and tutor in Government...
...Herring told of many ingenious publicity stunts and devices for influencing public opinion which were brought to the notice of the committee. Several months ago, a professor at Columbia University declared that all persons who whistled with their lips were morons. This was merely an ingenious method of getting his name in print before publishing one of his books. The manufacturer of a patent reducing medicine hired 40 New York chorus girls and, after dividing the city into zones, sent them on a circuit to all the drug-stores, where they bought tooth-paste, aspirin, etc., and finally asked...
...Herring, instructor and tutor in Government is in charge of the political section of the committee's research...
...Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and Boers eat the Sardina sagax. Southern Australians and New Zealanders eat the Sardina neopilchardus. But in the U. S. any small fish of the herring family is a sardine, provided it comes in a can. Official U. S. attitude on the sardine question was clarified last week by Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Said he: "Members of the herring family classed as sardines include not only the true sardine...