Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the tide, not to say worm, has turned. Despite suffrage, Vassar, and the W.C.T.U., women are again the weaker sex. The adolescent freshman, once thought "cute," is now reckoned a full-fledged college man. Sophomores are considered men of the world, and juniors and seniors are looked upon with respect approaching that given to Boyer--or Bob Hope...
...Malicious Falsehood." The President then repudiated the "old worm-eaten chestnut" that he has ever "represented himself as indispensable." This he described as a "malicious falsehood," to which, he added, he was accustomed-but he still did resent "libelous statements about...
Tucked away in Dean Hanford's safe in University Hall is a 12 by 6 piece of worm-eaten brown oak with a common look that hides a three-century history of Harvard significance. It's a piece from a doorway in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and antiquaries feel sure that once upon a time when John Harvard was going to college at Emmanuel, he must have brushed against the wood with his gown...
Called mumu by Samoans, filariasis develops from the worm Wuchereria bancrofti, carried by certain species of mosquitoes. Injected into the blood stream, the baby worm (microfilaria) eventually may grow nearly four inches long. It lodges in the lymph glands, where it reproduces itself. First visible symptoms are painful swellings of an arm, leg or the scrotum. Doctors have been less alarmed than troops by the disease, because even with repeated infections, less than 10% of the cases develop elephantiasis, and symptoms usually disappear after return to a temperate climate. But the disease's monstrous effects on native sufferers...
Sergeant & Pretty Nurse. Long before Captain Spencer and his U.S. medium-bomber crew are forced down in German territory, each crew member has been warned to tell his captors only his name, rank and serial number. The movie dramatizes the wiles employed by the German Military Intelligence to worm out additional information...