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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of men, women, children appeared before the imperial seaside villa at Hayama, stripped and vigorously purified themselves by pouring buckets of cold water over one another and then standing motionless in the chill sea breeze until...
...interest and special appropriateness for that oldtime fishing centre. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish, biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries station at Woods Hole, Mass., in working over specimens and data brought back by her husband, Dr. Charles J. Fish, from his trip last year to the Sargasso Sea, Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson River, had identified certain fish eggs dredged from the Challenger Bank near Bermuda as eggs of the common American eel. Science had never seen such things before. The identification was by a sure method: the eggs hatched...
Eels, the only freshwater dwellers that descend to salt water to breed, are caught in great numbers and sizes (up to 8 ft., 3 in. for congers) as they go to sea in the autumn but the specimens are never sexually ripe. Sea dredging has hitherto brought to light no eel eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels...
...Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the root of all the trouble," maintained Professor Barnes. "This strait, her only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
...inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced. Thus progresses the ageless dream of making the ocean work...