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...question remains: Can the team rally around Forbush the way it once gravitated around the sensational Bagnoli? Bagnoli is a perfectionist, and his dogged efforts have made him an excellent and often spectacular performer. In the mud and slime at Philadelphia a week ago, he reached his peak, shutting out the highscoring Pennsylvanians and contributing several flashy saves. His loss will undoubtedly be felt...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

...drove up Memorial Drive towards Plympton Street, he felt that wonderful surge of warmth inside him which always accompanied his return to Cambridge Vag was living in Boston this summer but made at least one trip a week back to Harvard, sinking his roots into the slime of Cambridge for a fresh supply of worldly oblivion to carry him through his next week...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...Natural Science section across the hall, Andrew R. Lang, assistant professor of Metallurgy, delivered an opening lecture to five undergraduate residents, who appeared to discuss the origins of life on earth. He told his audience how life may have sprung from primitive pools of green slime, or arrived from outer space in the form of microscopic spores. The five listened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Science Tutorial Meets | 11/15/1955 | See Source »

...freezing slime of the practice field, the J.V. football team was playing one of its few regularly scheduled games...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/28/1955 | See Source »

...concerned professionally with snails as food, he seems to regard them, even uncooked, with affection. His first chapter describes their slow, idyllic lives: how they emerge from the soil in spring after a few days of sunshine; how they cruise through the dewy dawn, laying down roads of silvery slime, in search of tender herbage; how they explore the nearby world with their sensitive tentacles; how they glide over obstacles; how they retire into their shells when wind or heavy rain strikes their tender skins. "The snail is a peaceable creature," says Cadart. "Excesses of nature do not please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: All About Snails | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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