Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty-five years ago, in 1891, The Harvard Crimson started appearing at the top of page one. Even the type style of the banner head has remained virtually the same. A brief experiment was launched in 1933 when the Crimson Seal divided the two words after the fashion of the New York Herald Tribune. The present head, especially designed to harmonize with the rest of the page, was introduced in September...
...Arctic icefields off Newfoundland's east coast, hardy, wind-bitten swilers (sealers) were out on their annual seal hunt...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...John's and the outports, the return of the sealers would be anxiously awaited, for the seal hunt and tragedy have long been synonymous. But when they come back, badly in need of a bath and reeking of blubber, the sealers will be able to make a few more dollars by selling flippers (up since the war from $1 a dozen to $1 apiece) to housewives for flipper pies. The flippers, which taste something like saltwater duck, are one of Newfoundland's national dishes...
...father held the seal and broke...