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Word: goldfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, darting like a goldfish through the layout of 40 "gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down Rim Rock | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...Goldfish eating is outdated. So are kissing contests. But the American college student can still do things that no calm, well-balanced person would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Brave Atlantic--But Swear "Never Again" | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

...years ago Japanese had joked when the Government cut down the strength of rice wine, had said that even goldfish could live in it. No one joked last week as he drank synthetic wine of potatoes and acorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The People Wait | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Fish Flop. In Seattle when a woman complained to the city transit system that she had been splashed by goldfish in another passenger's bowl, a ruling was made that goldfish could ride city busses only if they lay still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Goldfish remember better in cold water than in warm water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: People, Goldfish | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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