Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours and 45 minutes later, the winner, Italy's Fagioli. crossed the finish line in front of the grandstand where 50,000 people were shouting loud enough to drown the sound of the cars roaring in behind him. His time, in a Mercedes shaped like a blunt crochet-hook with a notch for the driver's seat, averaged 105 kilometres an hour, 70 kilometres slower than his winning speed over the old course last year...
...technique is as follows: Salmon feed in the ocean. They come into fresh water to spawn. They do not feed in fresh water. The Indians found that they did not like red and so we tie a red feather on a quarter inch hook which is attached to light tackle. The fish strikes at the red feather, catches the barb in its lip and with a reasonable amount of skill in preventing any slack line, the fish is finally landed. Unlike tuna fishing where bait is used and the fish is permitted to swallow the bait, in salmon fishing...
Lolloping about in the waters off Liverpool, N. S. last week, an enormous tuna noticed a scrap of herring, snapped it up. Inside the herring was a hook which sank into the tuna's bony...
Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...
...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...