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Word: squid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...contest between aspirants. Why else did the aspirants for the Speakership begin to lay their plans as soon as it was known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Speakershlp | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...drum and seven miles of cable, with trawls to catch fish at various depths. One of the chief objects of this Odyssey is to catch the self-illuminated deep-sea fish, the little monsters of the great depths. Dr. Beebe has expressed hope of capturing a giant squid, one of the great octopi with tentacles many feet in length. Scars which these sucking tentacles have left have been found on whales' sides, remains of less agile octopi in whales' stomachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sargasso-Seaward | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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