Word: sunfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks something like a sunfish, but in all probability it belongs to the family Bramidae, genus Brama," said one of Dr. Barbour's assistants. "Little is known of the fish, only two that resemble it in any way at all have been found on the whole Atlantic coast...
...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...
...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...
...fish for whom the food was bought are long gone. Originally there were seventeen of them. But the smaller ones were eaten by the larger until six pickerel and two sunfish remained in the bath-tub, which was their home...