Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fisheries Resources Conservation Society, he assembled a classroom for baby trout. In the center of a glass tank 10 in. in diameter, he hung a 3 in. ring of bare wire with six short wires dangling from it. Inside the ring swam a 21-in. "fish" cut from a tin can. The ring and fish were charged with electricity of opposite polarity, thus creating a mild electric field inside the ring...
...Their Own Good. Hatchery-innocent rainbow troutlets, less than an inch long, were plopped into the classroom. With the current turned off, they swam about at random, brushing the wires and the tin fish. But when Kanayama switched on the current, they darted all over the tank, desperate to avoid the harmless but painful shock. "I never felt guilty for doing this," says Kanayama fondly. "It was all for their own good...
...Grass The Tin Drum...
Viewers will not find much that is traditionalist; these are modernists concerned basically with materials, which may be tin cans, rope or boards for painting, teak and hollowed iron for sculpture. But their new language still bears the accent of their native culture. Through March...
...case, Niederhoffer was clearly shaken by the call. He whacked a shot into the tin, Salaun passed him once, and beat him once with a drop shot. The score was 11-7 and, though Niederhoffer fought back, he never again evened it up. Salaun won game and match...