Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...
Either the Dartmouths feared lawsuit or else they got wind that Harvard had caught on to their little plot. Somehow the party never came...
...Sarno reason to Tyler-ate speeding. We Bailey missed that Chapman. A Mueller horse should have Carey-d mo," quaked his assistant, Monahan-ds tremble, Murphy-t ache, Marriott pounds, and McCraney-um throbs--a Fitkin occur. It-Sar-della-brate plot--Bissell Kill...
...plot itself is simple, unpretentious, and harmless. Gary Cooper is a Navy flyer who takes part in the first carrier-landing experiments, marries a buddy's widow, and is exiled to a desk in the Canal Zone after pleading aviation's case too violently at a Washington reception. Eventually he gets back on a carrier, and he is on the spot at Pearl Harbor when the shooting starts...
Although things were relatively quiet last year, in 1947 the CRIMSON exposed an Indian plot to dye the Charles River green...