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...plumb scared," said Coach Alvin Nugent ("Bo") McMillin last week: his flashy Indiana T team had become a red-hot favorite for the Big Ten title...
...Each entry would roll up a sleeve, crook an elbow, and . . . see how fast he could fill an empty C-ration can. Eight minutes, 41 2/5 seconds was the record, achieved by a fat but fading major. . . . Finally, the contest had to be discontinued. 'The boys are just plumb sweat out,'" said one of the officers...
Harrison Irving, the Trumans' Negro yardman, took a dim view of the whole business. "I'm the nervous type," he confided. "I ain't never been in any of this big time stuff before. I'm going to be plumb scared to death by them secret-service...
...would ever see a Lewis County man afraid to fight a wildcat. Father Johnson admitted the cateymount had him purely frightened. "I've never been afeard of man ner beast," he said, "but when that old cateymount yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring in dogs to track the cateymount down. "Dogs that aren't afeard. Our dogs is cowed. When they hears the cateymount they start to whine and tuck their tails between their legs...
From Scab to Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...