Word: worm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenacity. Professor Lorande L. Woodruff of Yale has a microorganism, paramecium, in captivity. It has reproduced itself 8,500 generations (the equivalent of 250,000 years for humans), and has yet died no natural death. Dr. Thomas H. Morgan of Columbia found that 1/250th part of a worm will regenerate and become younger than the original worm. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research has kept a chicken's heart alive and growing for 15 years, longer than any ordinary chicken ever lived. Dr. Carrel sailed for a vacation on the Continent last week...
Life is, after all, shadows in a shadow world. The concrete of today is the worm food of tomorrow. Here in the cloistered clusters of the University the status quo deceives. Some sanguine to another says, "At last the permanent--the permanent." He taps Lis pipe upon the steps of Widener and is one with time, with eternity...
There is more to a photographic competition than meets the casual eye. One sees a harassed looking student dashing about with a camera, trying to worm his way into such hallowed places as the football secret practice field; climbing trees to get aerial views of this and that; seeking to round up Professor so and so, visiting lectures from such-and-such, and catch him in an informal pose. And comes the inevitable question...
...Advancement of Science, a pale, cheerful, young man, stood upon the platform of the august Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford last week and remarked: "The state of fishing has, I believe, been said to exist when there is a fool at one end of a string and a worm at the other. . . ." The president, elected to preside over the 95th annual meeting of this hoary and distinguished assemblage, had chosen to quip facetiously and without precedent. The president's audience, numbering some 1,500 distinguished scientists, twittered and tittered with ap- preciation-for the president was Edward of Wales...
THREE KINGDOMS-Storm Jameson-Knopf ($2.50). One of the first things that will strike you about Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows...