Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special interest not only to the Widener worm, but to all ardent bibliophiles as well, is the exhibition of the 50 Books of the Year now showing in the main lobby of Widener...
...consecutive months Department of Commerce figures for retail sales have topped the year before, but the chart at right shows the worm in this shiny apple: January was the fourth consecutive month when the only reason dollar volume was up was that the public was paying more money to get less goods. Ever since last October the physical volume sold has been lower than it was a year before, and the seeming increase in sales has been an optical illusion caused entirely by rising prices. Retail prices are now rising 2% a month. If that trend continues, year...
...went wrong. He discovered the Venezuelan pearl fisheries, which might have retrieved his reputation in Spain; but he did not realize what he had found, and a few months later a rival began to work them. In Panama he found gold, but could not get the metal out. With worm-riddled ships he tried to make the Spanish settlement on Haiti. He was forced to beach the boats on Jamaica, wait for months while rescuers, hoping he would die, refused to take...
Donald Duck, in aviator's clothing, pulling a worm with a Hitler head out of the ground, is flying with General de Gaulle's Free French Forces. Decked out in a British Admiral's uniform, he is also treading the decks of the aircraft carrier Illustrious...
...Bureau of Supervisors. As head of the T. S. E., administrator of the N. Y. A. funds at Harvard, and responsible for the dispensation of the 4,500 jobs that come through his office in a year, he claims he "hasn't the private life of a worm...