Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory XIV, who was in feeble health. Next year the Pope sank so alarmingly that it was gravely decided to administer the powdered tip of the horn. Despite this strong medicine, or perhaps because of it, the Pope died. In 1909 the horn, minus tip and plus a few worm holes, was brought to light and sold to a man in Rome, who later sold it to a U. S. collector, who still later gave it to Manhattan's American Museum. There last week Pope Gregory's unicorn horn was on exhibition. It was placed in the Hall...
...guns were the invention of General Harry G. Bishop, former Chief of Field Artillery, and consist of four pieces mounted on an iron base. Each gun has a regulation panoramic sight and worm gear arrangements for elevation and angle of site...
...Seattle Lloyd Ritzman, 17, raised the price of his fishing worms to 25¢ per 100, explained: "I make them self-cleaning by packing them in moss for a couple of days before they are sold. This wipes off the slime as the worm crawls, and makes it possible for the fisherman to grasp it firmly...
...snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
...friend of the common man that he was, he generously gave up the thought of investing his own money and instead accepted the people's money thereby enabling them to acquire pretty stock certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some big bad men thought to worm their way into the companies he had formed and, rather than permit this attempt to divert benefits from the beloved peepul, honest old Sam spent their last nickel in an attempt to prevent it. Bunk! Your attempt to make a martyred hero out of this old fellow is nauseating...