Word: popularizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Cuba to Cape Breton lies the most famed game-fishing lane in the world. Once the pastime of sophisticated sportsmen, the great, crazily unpredictable and usually expensive sport of game fishing has become popular in the past five years among more ordinary summer vacationists. Last week, reverently as turn-of-the-century maidens perennially inspecting their hope chests, thousands of winter-weary U. S. men & women took out their dusty fishing kits, added a few newfangled gadgets, collected roadmaps for their annual summer fishing trip...
Game fish have three characteristics: 1) thrilling strike, 2) great speed or spectacular leaps when hooked, 3) endurance to make long and repeated surface runs. Most popular with Atlantic anglers is the weak-mouthed weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous...
Died. General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, 68, popular onetime Governor of Bermuda (1931-36); in Buckinghamshire, England. Mild Sir Thomas made no protest when the Bermuda Assembly refused to grant him an automobile...
Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came...
...Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau of Chicago described a boon to bathroom tenors: shower curtains inscribed with words & music of popular songs...