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Word: mackerels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunfish and horse mackerel, although not mad at anyone, make a harsh sound by grinding their lower pharyngeal teeth together. Conger eels bark, schoolmasters sound as if they were delivering a lecture, and the oldwife gossips away with chirps and chatters. The male weakfish, during the mating season, vibrates his air bladder with such vigor that he can be heard six feet above water while he is sounding off from 50 feet under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Noisy Fish | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Bethlehem is one of the four U. S. steelmakers capable of making heavy armor plate. The others: U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's Midvale Co., the U. S. Government's Naval Ordnance Plant at South Charleston, W. Va. All these plants, said Bethlehem's boss, mackerel-jawed Eugene Grace, are adding or about to add to their capacity. Through its shipbuilding division, Bethlehem is also the U. S. Navy's No. 1 private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building (and taking title to) additions to Bethlehem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Expanding Furnaces | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans that city of crawfish bisque and gumbo file. Spanish pompano and mackerel, fried plaintains, baked bananas, claret and Bourbon, absinthe, Sazerac and silver gin fizz--a life of dissipation was more alluring than anywhere else on the continent. But none of the hot blood of Charleston and New Orleans flowed in the veins of Thomas Jefferson, for he was above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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