Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stoll's paper, This Wormy World, was a loud demand that something be done. He feels that worms are shamefully neglected. They lack drama, cause no great pandemics. But they are persistent, ubiquitous and "unremittingly corrosive." There are less than 2,200 million people in the world, Dr. Stoll estimates, and more than 2,200 million worm infestations. (Some people have an assortment...
Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...
...never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would quit...
...care what you were before you got here--you're Dartmouth freshmen, kin to the worm, now, and will be treated as such. Consider what's coming an honor, an undergraduate equivalent of matriculation, a sign of acceptance into the Dartmouth community. If you still think it's kid stuff, far, far beneath your mature dignity, remember this: Dartmouth was run that way before you were thought of, will be run that way after you're dead. If you don't like it, what the hell are you here...
...screwed up his courage last week and read Congressional Candidate Edmund Bobrowicz right out of the Democratic Party. Said Tehan: "I am convinced that Bobrowicz is a Communist Party member." In effect, the purge set a Democratic policy: the bosses were not going to let Communists masquerading as Democrats worm into office-at least, not if their masks slipped...