Word: slime
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...floor. Out swarmed a brown tide of worms. Over ankles, up legs, through fingers, down necks of shrieking passengers they slimily inched. Calmly Mrs. Rose popped back into her gallon jar as many worms as she could find. She warned all passengers to wipe the slime from their clothes because in it were breeding more worms...
...Seattle Lloyd Ritzman, 17, raised the price of his fishing worms to 25¢ per 100, explained: "I make them self-cleaning by packing them in moss for a couple of days before they are sold. This wipes off the slime as the worm crawls, and makes it possible for the fisherman to grasp it firmly...
Minor Prophet? Dickens' England was a country in which the Industrial Revolution was just getting under way. not without slime and soot. No observer of the contemporary scene could fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor...
...them. The touchdown came in the second period, when Columbia's Halfback Al Barabas cut around Stanford's right end and loped across the line standing up. Center Newt Wilder kicked the extra point. From then on Columbia's job was to dig into the slime and hold against Stanford's inexhaustible reserves. Columbia not only held, but turned Stanford back from the 1-yd. line where Halfback Ed Brominski scooped up a Stanford fumble. In the last few minutes the rain again helped Columbia. Stanford tried to catch up with a furious forward-passing attack...
Last year the sages of the ages had it all doped out that Yale could win and the Blue proceeded to mop up the mud and slime with the crimson jerseys in a masterful fashion. Harvard had lost to Brown and the Army and had eked out bare margins over Dartmouth and Holy Cross. To be sure, Yale hadn't won any championships, but at least she had lost by smaller edges. So the debacle in the Bowl did not surprise the dopesters. But someone is going to get fooled today, for there probably could not be found...