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...Well, Hopp right in with me, the morose one answered. I can't Ward off Prices any more, and I'll be Frank, this is no Granger movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Huey, Back in Fold, Sees Crimson Upset of Columbia | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...ends--all-important because of the Lions 'reliance on Carr's passing--will be Dale Hopp and Phil Bonnano...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

Local bettors presage a Lion victory on two counts; they feel the big, veteran Columbia line will be able to stop the Crimson backfield, and they feel the Dick Carr-Dale Hopp passing combination--perhaps the best in the Ivy group--will overwhelm the Crimson secondary. But the New York betting is not confident, and several papers have rated the game a toss...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Varsity Meets Columbia in New York Today for Ivy Opener | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

Color & Variety. To farmers who are not particularly worried about an earthworm shortage, Hopp & Linder point out that the earthworm is one of the world's most efficient farmhands: it does an enormous amount of soil conservation. Toiling underground, the hard-working worms in one acre can eat, pulverize, fertilize, aerate and move ten tons of earth in a year's time. Charles Darwin, who had a profound respect for the earthworm, doubted whether "there are many other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Danger & Nerves. Hopp & Linder made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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