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Word: sunfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Menagerie Loses J. Leslie Hotson McGrew, Ring Tailed Monkey, but Chester Greenough, Marmoset, Remains | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

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