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Word: tuna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover had to admire the first vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Catalina | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

What size cans are most used for the following foods in hotels, and why? Corn, peaches, pimento, spinach, tuna fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bachelors of Hostelry | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...dangerous situation reached during the post-War slump. New England vessel fisheries report a 6% increase in the catch over that of the preceding year, 45% more salmon was packed on the Pacific coast, and substantial advances were registered in the packing of Maine and California sardines and tuna, as well as in the production of fish oil and byproducts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fishing Industry | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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