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Word: turboter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Turbot with lobster sauce Kentish chicken pudding (made from an inherited family recipe of Elizabethan days, and earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Syllabub | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Horses on Ice | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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