Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic Coast, from Cape May, N.J. to Chincoteague Is., Va., and they revised their first...
...Angeles for Sun Valley in the fourth annual "Mobilgas Economy Run," a three-day trip to determine which U.S. car gets the best gas mileage. General Motors, which has passed up the test in the past, did so again (one dealer entered a Chevrolet on his own hook, but was disqualified when he missed a turn and ran out of gas). Willys did not participate either. But aside from them, every standard make mass-produced in the U.S. was represented...
Harry E. Brawley, Pikesville, Md.; Phillip R. Burnamen, Tulsa, Okla.; Charles L. Harding 3d, Syesset, N. Y.; Phillips M. Herrera, Guatamela; Richard W. Hook, Medford, Mass.; Edward V. Keating, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Samuel F. Quarter one. Andover, Mass.; Arnold D. Rubin, Newton Centre, Mass.; Mark Abramowicz, Cambridge, Mass...
...also seen the frenzied boil of water as a hook sets firmly, or merely lazed in a boat with a line in his hand, he has discovered what Izaak Walton called the "poetry" of fishing, and has reveled in its "large measure of hope and patience...
...pity that the governing body of Harvard does not exhibit the same good sense in dealing with a pair of credulous donkeys such as Shapley and Furry. The latter pair prove that most professors, when not actually in the class room, should be kept hung on a hook in a closet. Russell M. Cook...