Word: minnow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minnow was last week the hero of Istria...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...
Sammy Fishman, the "Maiden Minnow," together with Ikea Powers are expected to show the Harvard players something in the way of running this afternoon. Both backs did well against Pennsylvania last weekend. Ward Donner is another Indian whom football fans will remember as one of the best ends produced last season, and he is as well a noted pass receiver. Dave Hedges, starting right halfback, is a veteran player...
...Minnow Rawls had one more surprise left. She clambered onto the 10-ft. springboard, began manipulating her tiny sunburnt person toward the water as though she were impersonating the knife in a game of mumblety-peg. A brilliant half-gaynor helped her get the points she needed to win the event, 78.64 to 77.75, from goldilocked Georgia Coleman, U. S. diving champion since...
...pretty freshness with big muscles and fat, breaks a backstroke record almost every time she goes for a swim. This time it was the world's record for 100 metres, which she swam 1:18.2. A crowd of 55,000 wanted to see what would happen between Minnow Rawls and Georgia Coleman in the platform dive. Again Minnow Rawls surprised everyone: she withdrew. Georgia Coleman's running swan dive looked too short and the title went to Dorothy Poynton of Los Angeles, who wore a white bathing suit, a red-&-white bandanna around her head...