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Word: catching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight snack at a restaurant south of the Twin Cities when three gunmen walked in and robbed the cash register of $1,700. Reporter Presbrey ran for the phone as the last bandit went out the door. He had the city desk on the wire in time to catch the final edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed to the natural swimming motions of the fish. Since little fish move their tails faster than big fish, the pulses must come closer together (about 20 per second) to catch little fish. A current with two pulses per second catches big ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pied Piper of Hamburg | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Properly timed, thinks Dr. Kreutzer, the singing current would even catch whales, forcing them to swim right up to the maw of a whale ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting its sex and its depth of blubber. Large, fat males could be hauled aboard. The young, the thin and the female could be set free with the crew's apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pied Piper of Hamburg | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Heart & Head. Last week, as thin, white-haired Father Berard, 75, was escorted to the microphone, young Franciscans in the first two rows of camp chairs cocked their ears to catch his words; from under a dozen brown habits cameras appeared. For half an hour, under a blazing sun, Father Berard spoke in Navajo of the mission's history and the meaning of the faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Michael's 50th | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...meeting, the speaker was questioned on the Party's attitude toward the Jews. He replled that Hitler had temporarily eliminated the Jews in Austria, but the Party realized that democracy was impossible in a nation with a race minority. While the CRIMSON realizes that the League is a catch-all party, the editors feel that this and similar statements indicate that the leadership and program of the Party have clear Nazi inclinations and constitute far from a loyal opposition in the new government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Austrian Independents | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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