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Word: wormed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night before he had jumped up on the stage at the Arena after Aimee Semple MacPherson has wound up her tirade in a blaze of glory, to "get" her for an interview. If she refused he would have had to chase her cab to the hotel and then worm his way into her presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON COMPETITIONS FOR 1936, 1937 TO OPEN | 3/29/1934 | See Source »

Boston. Mass. The artist sketching Collector Maynard gets $30.60 a week, as do all other CWA artists under the New England scale.-ED. "Shine, Little Glow Worm, Glimmer" Sirs: The review of my book They All Sung in TIME. Feb. 29 was very flattering, but I find that two or three misstatements have crept into your most excellent account. Knowing TIME'S reputation for accuracy, I am taking the liberty of pointing these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

There are a few other minor mistakes, chiefly wrong publication dates for songs, and my biggest seller has seldom been given the long title "Shine, Little Glow Worm, Glimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAR-BAITING | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Milwaukee | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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