Word: dogfish
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...English Channel grew smooth. Mr. Temme swallowed chocolate, tea, coffee, lemonade. A "giant" dogfish waggled itself alongside Mr. Temme in friendly fashion. Mr. Temme trudgeoned on, reaching Lydden Spout, under the Dover chalk cliffs, in 14 hr. 29 min.-two minutes less than Miss Ederle had taken; but three hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...
...nation of the inexhaustible soil, are threatened with a change of our table d'hote. The Government, which is occasionally paternal, in growing anxiety that its fledglings will not be fed, has combed the deep and traditionally seven seas for new foods. In result we are advised to eat dogfish, shark, whale, and other "meats." By eating the dogfish, shark, whale and marine monsters which are neither fish nor flesh, it is expected that no one will starve...