Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday, the worm turned. Favored Brown toppled before a smoothly functioning J. V. machine, and the denizens of the Blood Pit could hold up their heads again. After two months, one-man-coaching-staff McCabe had brought his team into the win column without interrupting the system of cooperation with the varsity. As for Yale, "We'll do all right...
Vogue's Book is sure to worm its way into the shelves (or secret drawers) of many a home, because it caters to the social yearnings of all classes-from the sportsman who needs to know what kind of mourning is appropriate to driven-bird shooting (a black arm band on a tweed coat) to the unfortunate who still needs to be told that "oil is mispronounced 'erl.' " Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose...
...deepest of these problems was at the bottom of the conflict at Amsterdam -the problem of the Nature and Destiny of Man. Every religion divides along two poles. For the one, man is a worm. For the other, man is "a little lower than the angels...
...worm was about to turn for Commodore Pete Putnam's hardy little band, who went on to clean up the consolation regatta of the New England Championships, beating out nine other opponents, after barely failing to qualify for the Nationals...
...there was nothing new for schistosomiasis, which attacks the liver and intestines of 114,000,000 people a year, mostly in the tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...