Word: shoaling
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...Jackspot," a shoal 22 miles off Ocean City, Md., fishermen last week repeatedly broke the record for numbers of white marlin boated in one day out of one port. From 41 the record leaped to 73, to 123. Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt had his sea gear loaded aboard the Potomac, sped to "The Jackspot" for the weekend. Trolling from the Potomac's stern, while men all around him caught marlin, Mr. Roosevelt got skunked...
...drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen...
Fishing will be done with otter trawls. Blake trawls, and, off bottom, with large ring nets. Most of the trawling will probably be done in depths greater than 100 fathoms because in shoal water much gear would be destroyed by coral...
...submarine was only simulated. Unfortunately for Lieut. Commander John F. Gillon and his mechanic, Glen Beal, the fatal plunge of their plane into the sea was not simulated. Two other planes cracked up off Maui early in May, two landplanes flopped into the shallows off French Frigate Shoal, other crashes were rumored, none fatal...
...displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley got down to more familiar ground. Boomed...