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Word: angleworm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regain the championship for his alma mater, Harvard's Irving Clark Jr. four days later polished off 24, sucking at an orange after each one. He also offered to eat a bug for a nickel, an angleworm for a dime and a beetle for a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Columbia's fat and famed Thorndike asked me my price for spitting on a picture of Washington or for eating an angleworm I wouldn't give the silly answer the question deserved but would call for a paddy wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...conversational medicine ball had been thrown back and forth enough this Sunday morning, we decided to put the question of the price for eating an earthworm to the test. Upshot: a friend of mine (incidentally a Harvard student-perhaps that explains it) totally consumed a fairly good-sized angleworm for the small fee of 25?. We concluded that Dr. Thorndike's price of $100 was a little high. Would he be interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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