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Word: swordtail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell of Dentist Klein performing a Caesarean operation on his lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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